We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 VIPRION (EOL) 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 support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"The occasion in which we needed technical support, we didn't have problems with them, because they always answered our questions without any trouble."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"There are several levels of module so a company can upgrade if necessary."
"The most valuable feature is the vertical scaling of the application infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL upload."
"The solution itself is perfect. It's easy to configure and we haven't had any initial issues with the hardware or power supply."
"A lot of functions that are attributed to iRules can actually be simple profile changes. iRules do have a certain performance impact. Therefore, instead of writing simple iRules, they can create certain profiles for classes that will perform the same function."
"Fixing bugs."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"For integration with other AWS environments, we do some tie-ins with some autoscaling groups. This has been challenging for us. We have had issues, where when autoscaling groups scale up, there are some instances which are not showing up in the proper size. Then, those IPs would get registered with F5, but never get released. Therefore, we are ending up with a whole bunch of ghosted IPs."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
"The initial setup is complex but it is manageable."
"It's unfortunate that the network firewall isn't really a next generation firewall."
"It's hard to scale down the solution. You need to buy another product in order to do this."
"The pricing for this solution should be reduced so that it can be more competitive."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while F5 VIPRION (EOL) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while F5 VIPRION (EOL) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 VIPRION (EOL) writes "Excellent for internal business core applications and has the ability to scale up as necessary ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas F5 VIPRION (EOL) is most compared with .
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