Load Balancer Enterprise ADC

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

I haven't seen any disadvantages so far.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

Need to manually reload services after every change

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

Totally reliable and support that is absolutely outstanding

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

None so far, overall system is working great.

Avantages

Quick and simple UI. Configuring HA is simple.

Inconvénients

N/A -- I have to create some random sentence to submit this ...

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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..

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.