We performed a comparison between Aruba VPN and OpenVPN Access Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"Aruba VPN is lighter on machines, and users don't feel any difference in having these items installed on their PCs or laptops."
"Aruba VPN’s stability was okay."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"What I like the most about Aruba VPN is that it's great for companies with diverse network needs."
"There is support for multi-factor authentication."
"The product provides secure internet connections and helps with faster downloads."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"It is open source and therefore affordable for small projects."
"The setup is easy."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"The product has strong encryption and scalability features. It provides security for private network connections."
"It can securely do remote product updates... just as if it was on our LAN."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"There is room for improvement from the solution's security point of view."
"When around 100 to 300 users tried to connect at the beginning of the day, the appliance would crash, and the users would not be able to connect."
"They could release product updates more frequently."
"It should address issues that are vital to maintaining the company's reputation."
"The high availability deployment is not very straightforward. They can make it simpler. OpenVPN does not support some of the additional protocols that Pulse Secure and Cisco AnyConnect support. They can include support for these additional protocols."
"OpenVPN does not have the ability to selectively terminate connections."
"I would like to see a GUI or Web UI to manage users. Today these features are in the Pro Edition or are done by scripts."
"I would like to see a simpler interface, so that we can make the connection between the local network using the LAN IP."
"When there are too many concurrent users trying to connect at the same time, there may be a bit of a bottleneck."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
"The stability had room for improvement."
"They should make the solution more secure by adding some firewall functionalities."
Aruba VPN is ranked 35th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 4 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 44 reviews. Aruba VPN is rated 5.6, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba VPN writes "A highly scalable solution that can be used to access corporate resources anywhere in the world". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Aruba VPN is most compared with , whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender. See our Aruba VPN vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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