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Kemp LoadMaster pros and cons

Vendor: Progress Software

4.7 out of 5

49 reviews
98% willing to recommend

1,058 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Kemp LoadMaster offers simple installation and setup with efficient security features like Intrusion Prevention and Web Application Firewall. It ensures high availability of web services with versatile load balancing algorithms. Scalability and seamless failover enhance server performance. Integrated tools, such as Kemp 360 Central, facilitate easy management. However, documentation needs updates for complex setups, and SNMP and RESTCONF management require improvements. Reporting on TCP packets and license management in virtual environments should also be enhanced.

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PROS

Kemp LoadMaster offers a simple installation process backed by excellent documentation.

The security features, including Intrusion Prevention and Web Application Firewall, are highly valued.

Load balancing is considered the core function, providing high availability and resiliency.

The Edge Security Pack helps separate critical infrastructure from the public internet.

Deployment of Microsoft Threat Management Gateway server replacements is simplified with Kemp LoadMaster.

CONS

Some documentation is out of date versus the new version, and things have been moved.

The password history restriction needs improvement, requiring unique password combinations without reuse for a minimum of three generations.

SNMP and/or RESTCONF management needs improvement for better data collection for central application plotting.

There is a lack of an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack.

Automatic backups are challenging to set up.

Kemp LoadMaster Pros review quotes

reviewer1365102

Director of IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Jun 29, 2020

I like that this is a Network Load Balancer that can be used practically with any application in the backend. They have how-to guides on how to set up Kemp NLB with Exchange, but you can use it as well for Sharepoint, RDS, or any other back end server.

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reviewer1442190

Information Technology Manager at Larson Engineering, Inc.

Oct 23, 2020

The configuration is really easy and the web portal is self-explanatory.

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reviewer1444170

Systems Engineer at Rochester Regional Health

Oct 27, 2020

One of the most valuable features I like is the ability to block specific cipher suites like RC4, and older protocols like SSL 3.0.

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Senior Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 30, 2019

We really like the performance of this solution.

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reviewer1446381

Network Administrator 2 at PUBLIC SCHOOL AND EDUCATION EMPLOYEE RET

Oct 30, 2020

The feature that allows us to easily disconnect a server when we need and bring back online is the most valuable. It's a click of a button. This allows us to keep all systems up. We can then run updates, perform reboots whatever we need to one of the servers without taking production down.

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reviewer1446387

System Administrator at Routeware, Inc.

Oct 30, 2020

Persistence is very valuable. This holds the connection information of the source and that connection is important to RDP and our APO calls. The connection has to be persisted to the original source to operate properly. We also use the subsections for sub-services to create services inside our services for our API resources, this is most awesome. We would not be able to do this without Kemp and offer this type of sub-service to route based on an API instance. It routes the traffic properly based on the sub-service type.

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reviewer1450248

Manager of Technology Architecture and Information Security at J.F. Shea Co., Inc.

Nov 12, 2020

When the templates are used, there is not much left to configure and they just work!

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reviewer1441854

Senior Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 27, 2020

The most valuable feature so far has been the high-availability options that allowed us to add an additional Kemp LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance into our VMware vSphere environment, to provide failover for our existing LoadMaster.

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reviewer1444176

Principal Systems Engineer at World Travel Holdings

Oct 27, 2020

It has greatly fortified the performance and uptime of our front-door email ingress, simplified and segmented mail routing, and reduced admin overhead for mail issue resolution and troubleshooting.

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reviewer1486944

Systems Administrator II at Lincoln Land Community College

Jan 13, 2021

Failover is seamless and our services are rock solid.

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reviewer1365102

Director of IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Jun 29, 2020

The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license.

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reviewer1442190

Information Technology Manager at Larson Engineering, Inc.

Oct 23, 2020

The only thing that I miss is that the TMG server was giving me live information about who is connected and what is the request about.

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reviewer1444170

Systems Engineer at Rochester Regional Health

Oct 27, 2020

The only thing I have struggled with is setting up automatic backups.

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Senior Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 30, 2019

The GUI is rather technical and complex, so it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly.

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reviewer1446381

Network Administrator 2 at PUBLIC SCHOOL AND EDUCATION EMPLOYEE RET

Oct 30, 2020

If I had to change something it would maybe be to have a little better reporting graphics that show more details in the reporting. It seems to be a little small in the graphic, and I'm not sure if possible but maybe a GUI page that one can use to monitor if any server goes down.

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reviewer1446387

System Administrator at Routeware, Inc.

Oct 30, 2020

I would like to see more automation and control of overactive and inactive resources. If I could schedule these around our updates then it would be all automated. I would like to set up an automated script to coincide with the scripts I use to update resources and servers.

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reviewer1450248

Manager of Technology Architecture and Information Security at J.F. Shea Co., Inc.

Nov 12, 2020

It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface.

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reviewer1441854

Senior Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 27, 2020

So far, the only hitch we have run into is that would have been nice to have an easier method to add allow/whitelist entries into the Access Control lists for virtual services.

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reviewer1444176

Principal Systems Engineer at World Travel Holdings

Oct 27, 2020

Certificate installations could be simplified and modernized, and allowed to be monitored for expirations/issues.

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reviewer1486944

Systems Administrator II at Lincoln Land Community College

Jan 13, 2021

It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster.

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