We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiADC, and Loadbalancer.org 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 v11 clustering is a new technology they have brought in that does not require improvement. They are the leader in it."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"It is very intuitive, easy to deploy, and manage."
"It is stable."
"Bandwidth optimization and capacity awareness of the bandwidth are valuable features. Its video streaming capabilities are also very useful."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"The SSL Layer 7 load balancing is valuable."
"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."
"Load balancing helps us distribute both incoming and outgoing data loads evenly among the servers, preventing overload on a single server."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"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."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"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 a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"An area for improvement in Loadbalancer.org is that sometimes it works fine, but sometimes, it has issues. The setup for Loadbalancer.org is also complex, so that's another area for improvement."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
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