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)."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."
"iRule feature is useful."
"Great load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is IP Intelligence."
"The stability is excellent."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"The most valuable features are DNS, APM, and ASM. Additionally, it is easy to use and you have a lot of flexibility to use the solution within a network."
"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 solution itself is perfect. It's easy to configure and we haven't had any initial issues with the hardware or power supply."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL upload."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"It is a hardware load balancer, and its installation procedure is more complex than a software load balancer. There are pros and cons of using hardware load balancing. You have to have specific hardware deployed in your data center to activate this load balancer. They never came up with any software-based load balancing solution. It is all hardware-based."
"Fixing bugs."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"The initial setup is complex but it is manageable."
"The pricing for this solution should be reduced so that it can be more competitive."
"It's hard to scale down the solution. You need to buy another product in order to do this."
"It's unfortunate that the network firewall isn't really a next generation firewall."
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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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