We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Kemp LoadMaster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC).
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN."
"The GSLB feature allows us to move services between data centers. We can do this in either a planned or unplanned manner. We have experienced service provider outages at our primary data center and GSLB will kick in to automatically modify DNS records to point to a secondary data center (active/passive). We also make use of GeoIP information to point clients to the closest data center for accessing applications."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"SSL Offload"
"This solution increases the backend network service performance, which is one of the things that we like the most."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The solution can scale."
"It also has an AVR feature: application, visibility, and recording. It's good for customers looking for what is actually happening in their network and where the latency is."
"The solution is robust and reliable."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"One of the best features of the solution is the operating system."
"The feature that allows us to easily disconnect a server when we need and bring back online is the most valuable. It's a click of a button. This allows us to keep all systems up. We can then run updates, perform reboots whatever we need to one of the servers without taking production down."
"When the templates are used, there is not much left to configure and they just work!"
"It helps with efficiency and reactivity, in case of assistance needs."
"The pricing of the solution is valuable."
"It has greatly fortified the performance and uptime of our front-door email ingress, simplified and segmented mail routing, and reduced admin overhead for mail issue resolution and troubleshooting."
"It has been functional. We don't have any outages."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Mitigates content security policy issues."
"The vendor provides frequent patches, however, the security of the website has room for improvement."
"The SLB could be better, and they should improve it."
"Too many bugs in the software and it's always difficult when you need to update."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"We had some bugs in the previous firmware. These were not big issues, but more testing on the firmware would be key to happier customers."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would expect more integration with different platforms and more integration with the backend systems. Additionally, in the next release, I would like a more secure version."
"The UI could be improved."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"In the next release, they can introduce 360 views in the same dashboard to make it easier for users to view. The graphical information should be displayed on the dashboard."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"The ability to see live traffic is not great and can be improved."
"The only thing that I miss is that the TMG server was giving me live information about who is connected and what is the request about."
"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."
"UI is very basic and unattractive."
"It would be helpful if there were a way to incorporate tooltips on the fields so that we don't have to dig through documentation."
"I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement."
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