We performed a comparison between Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall 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 aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"We are most impressed with the ease of use and great support."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"Failover is seamless and our services are rock solid."
"I like that this is a Network Load Balancer that can be used practically with any application in the backend. They have how-to guides on how to set up Kemp NLB with Exchange, but you can use it as well for Sharepoint, RDS, or any other back end server."
"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."
"It is an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, and you can set up a new VIP in a couple of minutes."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"Simple to install with good documentation."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
"When we go serverless, we may again have to revisit this because the configuration needs to be changed. With this change, we can run into a lot of other configurations that we haven't got into, which involve additional expenses. It would be challenging to convince management to buy at that price point. It would be a balancing act of justifying that expense and the value, that is, how it is going to save a bit of time and make our platform secure. It can have better configuration ability. A lot of iterations happen when we have multiple servers pointing to the same domain. If we do not orchestrate carefully, it gets into a loop, which takes away the precious time of the user who is trying to subscribe to a service. It takes a little longer time to realize services as well as web pages."
"They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing."
"The only thing I have struggled with is setting up automatic backups."
"The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license."
"I think there should be more visual instructions on how to configure advanced features."
"The GUI is rather technical and complex, so it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly."
"It would be very helpful to get all the http/https session logs by default in the log monitor without activating debugging mode like an apache web sever natively does"
"So far, the only hitch we have run into is that would have been nice to have an easier method to add allow/whitelist entries into the Access Control lists for virtual services."
Earn 20 points
Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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