We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Loadbalancer.org, and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"The scalability of the solution depends on the sizing of the network. Generally, the scalability is quite good."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"F5's attack signatures and automation are the most valuable features. The disaster recovery capabilities are also excellent. You don't need to do anything. It has automatic failover from production."
"The product is quite flexible."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"The initial setup is easy."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"Load balancing helps us distribute both incoming and outgoing data loads evenly among the servers, preventing overload on a single server."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"It helps us to route the traffic to the available servers. If we didn't have Loadbalancer we would fail to set the end-user and it would cause a failure in the cluster."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"Security and Reporting."
"There is a challenge in Pakistan. This is when there is a hardware failure. Sometimes, it takes more time to get a replacement because it is sent out from the U.S. or some other regional outpost. Thus, it takes two to three days to receive a replacement."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"We need best-practice information. They have something called DevCentral and a blog. But we want something from F5 itself regarding how to tackle the false-positive configurations. If you go into detail with so many configurations it will find so many false positives from the moment it is enabled that it will quickly impact your applications, and it will not work."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"The interface from Loadbalancer.org should be improved."
"If I have to say something, I suppose they could add an automated configuration backup to an FTP location (or something similar) so you don’t have to manually do it. I don’t see this as a problem, of course, as the configuration rarely changes and we only need one backup, but maybe for other users that feature would be handy."
"It would be great if there was a way to gain access to the graphing data, to create custom reports. If we had a way to use the graphing data, we could use it to present certain information to our client, such as the uptime status for their service."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
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