We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It provides first-tier firewalling, for you application. And it provides server load-balancing, it provides optimization, and it provides a proxy feature, where your users cannot directly access your server. It acts as a fully proxy architecture. It has client-side and server-side connections, both, and they're separate."
"F5's attack signatures and automation are the most valuable features. The disaster recovery capabilities are also excellent. You don't need to do anything. It has automatic failover from production."
"There is a lot of documentation available."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"iRule feature is useful."
"Good application firewall."
"The occasion in which we needed technical support, we didn't have problems with them, because they always answered our questions without any trouble."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"I would like to see F-5 implement a regular routing like in other Linux-based devices. When we try and integrate in some complex networks, we have to use some additional routing scenarios from a Layer 3 perspective, then we have some problems. It would be great if this were fixed somehow."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"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."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. 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 Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy.
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