Load Balancer Enterprise ADC

Vorteile

Runs on VMWare. Easy to configure. SSL offloading works great. Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing both work very well. We didn't have success with session stickiness with a couple of the other load balancers we tested. Was one of the main factors we chose the product. Support has been very good. Have not had a single failure of the software in over 4 years.

Nachteile

NIC assignment on the VM host machine is not very clear. The last update we pushed broke all of our configs and we had to recreate manually.

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We have been using Load Balancer Enterprise ADC in medical IT for several years. Reliability, stability and load balancing are important points in a modern IT infrastructure. Load Balancer Enterprise ADC was easy to implement. The support responds quickly and competently. I can highly recommend the product.

Nachteile

I haven't seen any disadvantages so far.

Vorteile

I like it's simplicity and the support. I worked with NetScaler for a good majority of my career and switching for loadbalancer.org has been the best decision for my organization. The support is always fast and good.

Nachteile

I honestly can't think of a cons at the moment; maybe just improve abilities to do more with ACL rules, like for instance create the ability to block by source domain; rather than just IP.

Vorteile

The Technical support is excellant, i had difficulty during a clients online upgrade of an enterprise VA Max Slave HA loadbalancer, I spoke to them uploaded support files and they provide me with a number of options to complete the upgrade. The upgrade is now complete and just needs downtime to failover and upgrade the Master appliance Thanks, great service as always

Nachteile

online upgrade has a few gotchas, but works if you follow the guidelines completely - disable any screen saver or anything that could move you off the upgrading web page

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The product works, is well documented, and the support is excellent.

Nachteile

Nit picking here, but the performance graphs aren't very clear and you really need to use a 3rd party monitoring tool.

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load balancer enterprise has a quick and easy solution to gather and send all troubleshooting information to support for analysis

Nachteile

Need to manually reload services after every change

Vorteile

Easy to setup, great manuals, good support that really know were they are talking about. And the costs are also acceptable.

Nachteile

I cant think of anything... So far this solution has never let us down!

Vorteile

Totally reliable and support that is absolutely outstanding

Nachteile

Interface feels a little dated and SSL certificate managment could be better.

Vorteile

i) The system is great in terms of functionality, reliability, performance, security, usability & scalability
ii) Not forgetting the wonderful after-sales support team, they have really been a great helping hand, especially in the moments that matter.

Nachteile

None so far, overall system is working great.

Vorteile

Quick and simple UI. Configuring HA is simple.

Nachteile

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Vorteile

Based on Linux platform, it is robust and secure. And provide unlimited customization levels. You can actually request something to suit your organizational needs. You can run multiple services not limited to operating system e.g. you can run to loadbalance Windows Server Farm and Web applications simultaneously. you can introduce new servers in existing setup and take out old without any downtime

Nachteile

Web UI to configure is bit complex , However the support is excellent and provide service promptly. Agent less there is not much information you can what going on target services

Vorteile

The control it gives us to block unauthorized access into our network. The WAF rules are easy to create and the included firewall and per WAF blocking rules are terrific.

Nachteile

Loadbalancer.org does not do proper WAF integration with all pieces of a Metaswitch Enhanced Application Server. As an end user we have to constantly write new rules to make the device work properly.

Vorteile

-Stability
-Fantastic support team
-Multiple deployment options
-Support for the most popular hypervisors

Nachteile

-Could be a little more user friendly
-Although functional the UI could use a refresh
-No API support

Vorteile

Product is easy to configure and easy to manage. Product is very stable for production environment. Administrator guide and installation manual are very easy to understand and Administrator can easily manage all the information and logs.

Nachteile

GUI End user interface should be more informational. Monitoring users should work in real time. Restarting certain services should not loose users information.

Vorteile

The ease of use and implementation are huge pluses with this software. It provides everything that 90% of companies would use and does it very well. The price allowed us to get 2 pairs of LBs instead of just the 1 pair we were looking at from the competition.

Nachteile

The interface is a bit clunky and the reporting/monitoring is less than robust. Some of the graphs are a little difficult to decipher as to the roll up of data and what it is reporting.

Vorteile

Does everything it says on the Tin, simply easy to use. Great support and documentation on the site. Great Value for money.. Emailed support a few times and always got a thorough and great explanation to fix the issue.

Nachteile

SNMP functions are a bit lacking, but then again, Loadbalancer.org had an article that explained why

Vorteile

Amazing product with stability and absolutely less maintenance and effective one time setup . Glad to know there are providing Cloud based Load balancers as well. Without doubt would propose Cloud based load balancers for my customers.

Nachteile

Improvements like multiple scheduling algorithms for distributing client load, All hosts in a cluster must be located in the same subnet, Cannot provide reverse proxy services functionality that is required for applications etc..

Vorteile

It is configured in an intuitive manner and provides data that is easily interpretted for management review

Nachteile

The only thing I would change is UI customization including color changes. Bright white is pain on the eyes in a dashboard NOC

Vorteile

The layer 4 configuration is as good as a hardware LB if not better, the deployment on our network , the dashboards for monitoring the traffic, load and performance is very satisfactory, management and maintenance is relatively easy and there have been hardly any support requirement sought from us, towards trouble shooting any issues. Excellent to deploy on a production environment in a virtualised platform, especially on a layer 4 configuration.

Nachteile

SSL certificate implementation as part of the SLB needs to be incorporated or improved
Traffic analysis to be made in better readable form and the dashboard especially for traffic management could be improved

Vorteile

The HA ability allows you to make changes and reboots without affecting your environment. Updates to existing infrastructure assets is easy and SSL requests are a breeze

Nachteile

My only Fault is that the updating of the Loadbalancer.org virtual device is not simplistic like other virtual or physical devices. An update can take out the services to a long time. Now they may have fixed this but this is why I am hesitant to upgrade our revisions

Vorteile

Functional,
Cost Effective
Implimentation took half the time compared to other more popular appliances
Easy to support and maintain
Excellent Documentation and Suport from loadbalancer.org via email and phone

Nachteile

The Interface is simple and intuitive but can be at times clunky. Have found it works better in Chrome. Would like to see facelift on the interface.

MIBs are available for monitoring the appliance but could do with adverting these and making them easier to download

Vorteile

This was the easiest to configure set of load-balancers that I have used. It took us less than an hour to have 2 virtual LB's in an HA cluster.

Nachteile

The interface is basic and could really use some more reporting options.

Vorteile

It's a stable product, meeting our requirements. Never need to worry of looking other products in the market.

Nachteile

I don't see any cons as in such. Our requirements for a load balancer is minimal a d this product meets the needs.

Vorteile

It works. I was using the software as an email load balancer. Support staff helped get this configured and working as designed. I did not need to be an expert.

Nachteile

The software is complicated, but that is the nature of the software.

Vorteile

Loabalancer.org solutions are esay to setup and administrate. They can balance differents protocols with the same applicance. We really like the Direct Routing method to get a really good reponse time for our custumors even if this method requier some adjustements on web servers to work properly.

Nachteile

In the past i have got a issue with the serial cable that use for making a cluster work. I think they can improve this part to automaticaly setup the cluster when a specific cable is connected on two appliance for exemple.

Vorteile

There are a great many options to build your load balancing solutions to suit requirements. The support staff is exemplary and works very quickly to resolve any issues.

Nachteile

Upgrades do not always go smooth, but the support staff is always great to resolve the problems in a quick timeframe.

Vorteile

Cost effective - we had a small number servers that needed to be load balanced. Great support. Purchased the virtual machine model which made setup very easy.

Nachteile

We had one minor issue shortly after implementing that was resolved with a software update. I would like the software upgrade process to be more wizard point and click oriented.

Vorteile

very good, stable, and understandable product. I cant pinpoint anything for the use it is running on, to the contrary I can feel system is overall a winner. Support is very good, and know their stuff, and that's what puts everything together.

Nachteile

well, nothing much really - we forget that its actually there, the only problem is the boss thinks you are not working hard enough...

Vorteile

Pretty easy to use, brilliant support team

Nachteile

Honestly, it just works. I rarely use it and think "it really needs more...."

Vorteile

The loadbalancer appliances offer a wealth of options to suit any requirement we could dream up. Support is spot on. Most importantly, reliability even under heavy load is perfect as well.

Nachteile

There isn't really anything negative to note here.

Vorteile

Easy to understand and implement loadbalancing features without reading the manual. Their deployment guide is also useful and you can still reach out to the support team should you require have an application you need help to deploy.

Nachteile

Despite using this product for many years, it is difficult to find something glaring. In fact, we have purchased more and even upgraded the initial pair we deployed.

Vorteile

The software has always been reliable and stable, it is technical staff who enhance the product. Their ability to configure the product to our bespoke requirements, this makes the difference to other load balancer products on the market.

Nachteile

We currently have no cons using the software. The dashboards may look less modern but I really don't mind.

Vorteile

The load balancers are running very stable, provide a good performance and after a while you do not even know you are using them because they are inconspicuous.

Nachteile

There is nothing to complain about, no performance or stability issues, no need to reboot. Rare software updates because there isn't much you can make better when the product is perfect. :-)

Vorteile

the setup of the appliance is very easy and straight forward. the design is very simple. no complex steps involved.

Nachteile

features of the product should be increased. when compared to other LB appliances its lags support for virtual environment

Vorteile

the software is very nice, easy to use and runs very well, i like how easy it is to set up and maintain.

Nachteile

the only thing i do not like is that the logging is not very detailed, i would like to see more of the packets and what the load balance is seeing

Vorteile

Ease of configuration being used in multiple sites globally. With the ease of setup to handle failover this product has been a great asset in or infrastructure.

Nachteile

Reporting could be made more configurable along with addition potential for motivations of status etc etc

Vorteile

Support is great. Also they will work with you on models renewals. Just because they have a newer model you dont have to buy it

Nachteile

There is less knowledge based articles. Renewal price is bit expensive, for something you already have.

Vorteile

Very useful tool for administering Apple devices.

Nachteile

I cant answer that question as I do not use it, my team do.

Vorteile

Ease of use with taking servers offline and performing maintenance with our servers including our test environment.

Nachteile

Lack of documentation. Support through only the UK. Once a ticket is filed it takes a long period of time for an update.

Vorteile

Easy to deploy, easy to configure, statistics and analytics

Nachteile

Some more advanced configurations can reguire manual editing of configuration files.

Vorteile

Haproxy on command line is difficult to manage but it became much easy due to graphical interface.
Here there is no such dependency that unix guys only can manage it. It's easy tool from configuration perspective.

Nachteile

Whatever the commands we need to execute can be executed on graphical interface. This helps everyone to get required information such as netstat output.

Vorteile

I've used loadbalancer.org products both in the hardware appliance and software offerings and I am consistently pleased with the quality offering. Excellent featureset and a lot easier to set up than some other offerings.

Nachteile

Nothing really, I am happy with the solution. Cost perhaps could be better for software only solutions but all in all it's still very competitive.

Vorteile

Easy to administer, monitor and support team is very good.

Nachteile

Robust Monitoring via email is required

Vorteile

What I like about the loadbalancer is its ease of use with balancing our content filter traffic to the two content filter appliances that we currently have.

Nachteile

It took sometime to setup the load balancer to work with our content filters but once it was finished, it has worked very well ever since.

Vorteile

This software is easy to use and very well laid out. It is easy to navigate and find operations needed on a weekly basis.

Nachteile

Don't have anything bad to say about it.