We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Kemp LoadMaster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Failover is seamless and our services are rock solid."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"The most beneficial function of using the ADC is to ensure this resiliency."
"The most valuable feature that I found is the load balancing feature, it is the core function of the product."
"Great web balancing and remote access balancing."
"The solution is easy to configure when changing the load balancing method to Round Robin or least connection."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"Hardware version needs a dual power solution."
"I really don't like the way the logs are presented in the software."
"I definitely think that the WAF can be improved."
"I think there should be more visual instructions on how to configure advanced features."
"Perhaps Kemp could offer some training videos."
"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."
"It has all types of logs and they are very detailed, but it's a little bit hard to search for a single event."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Loadbalancer.org, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Kemp LoadMaster report.
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