We performed a comparison between Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus 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."
"This solution has everything."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"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."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The solution must improve its performance."
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Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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