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)."The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"The main reason that we suggest this product to our clients is the great integration with other security tools, such as IBM Guardium."
"The most valuable feature is the F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager). This is the part of the product most organisations will be using most. It provides the core functionality to be able to load balance services and the means and the intelligence to be able to load balance based on advanced logic, e.g., TCL scripting."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"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."
"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 A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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