VMWare Avi Load Balancer Reviews

The use case is very isolated right now. It's got very specific use cases. It's not a product that we deploy across due to our support infrastructure.

Whether or not it improves our environment just now is 50/50. I can't say that it does. And I can't say that it harms it either as they're very specific use cases. Our operational support infrastructure does not have the knowledge base to support it yet. It's still a work in progress.

In my company, we use Avi Networks Software Load Balancer as a global load balancer since its best points are its interface, and good infrastructure, making it a very modernized tool.

There are different region servers for which we require a global load balancer in our organization, so we prefer Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.

The solution helped us balance the load of our critical systems.

The solution has simplified our network infrastructure management. We can use one virtual ID for two services. The tool helped my previous organization a lot.

Avi Load Balancer is the next-generation load balancer, which VMware provides.

Earlier, we used a traditional type of load balancer. Due to the limitation of this traditional load balancer, we deployed this next-generation load balancer. This has very advanced capabilities like a web application firewall and very high-level visibility of an application's traffic flow. 

It works as a load balancer, so the application availability for day-to-day operations has bee really useful. It's helped the organization to enable the high availability of applications and also the monitoring and security of applications.

Typically, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer is used for application delivery, some security use cases, and some Kubernetes service mesh. The primary use cases of the solution are application delivery and resiliency.

Avi Networks Software Load Balancer can improve the way some organizations function because the platform is agile. You don't have to forward invest in a lot of hardware or large bandwidth-based licensing. It can essentially scale horizontally in and out as the application demand is there, so it's very efficient to align with the needs of the application at any given time. Avi Networks Software Load Balancer is very easy to deploy and very flexible in the way that the feature sets can be deployed in a lot of different use cases, so it covers a lot of security and application use cases that give it a lot of flexibility and applicability to different environments.

As an application load balancer, Avi Networks is great. Its visibility and login mechanism are the best parts. 

In addition to the great visibility it has

• a great dashboard
• an easy to configure graphic user interface, a beautiful GUI. 

All these features are great.

I really liked Avi Networks, but we are looking for more secure stuff. After downloading the report from IT Central Station, I spoke to the account manager of Avi Networks in the Middle East, and he said that they are selling the module we need as a separate product. I didn't want it because I don't want to have product upon product for each and every functionality.

I work for a major municipality and the whole our infrastructure runs on F5. We have close to eight F5s, the bigger boxes. F5 has a product called APM and that is not in the box with Avi Networks; you need to buy another product. I wish they included everything in one box because that's how we buy a product, especially an application load balancer. 

Everybody has to compete with the market leader and F5 is the market leader. But F5 is very expensive and that's why everybody wants to go to the cheaper load balancers. But to do that the competition has to include all the functionalities of F5. Avi Networks is great. It could be good for a small company, but for the whole municipality, it's just not good enough.

Avi Networks could put all the modules of F5, which are available in their hardware box, inside the software. They shouldn't sell the products separately. I would say 90 percent of the people in the Middle won't buy it. I know the government sector, and they wouldn't buy it.

For example, if you have a washing and the dryer comes separately, you're not going to buy it. The washing machine is great. It does great washing, but you have to buy another apparatus for drying. That just wouldn't work. With Avi Networks you have to accommodate the extra product in the data center. Of course, they say that they are all virtual, all software-based, but there is still a lot of software integrations and connectivity that are required.

Avi Networks is something I really wanted to go with and try because our F5 is a million-dollar-plus contract. Two of our F5s are going out of support, end-of-life. I really thought we could change it but for now, we cannot. If Avi Networks could bundle everything as one...

Our primary use case for this solution is for application delivery controls, and the solution is deployed on cloud.

The friendly user interface is valuable and has powerful technology and background.

The interface and software features are the most valuable aspects of this solution. 

In terms of improvement, the pricing and documentation need improvement. We have had problems getting the documents.