We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and NGINX Plus 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."The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"One of the greatest things about F5 Load Balancer is that it provides additional capability for handling huge workloads and routing them to an SAP or non-SAP application. It is capable of supporting a large amount of user workload and application connectivity workload. This was the main reason why we chose F5."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) provides a simple low balance and SSL decryption, in addition to some TCP parameters, for incoming and outgoing traffic to redirect appropriate traffic patterns to appropriate servers."
"Its user interface is very easy to use on a day-to-day basis. It is very user-friendly."
"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."
"It provides first-tier firewalling, for you application. And it provides server load-balancing, it provides optimization, and it provides a proxy feature, where your users cannot directly access your server. It acts as a fully proxy architecture. It has client-side and server-side connections, both, and they're separate."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
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"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"This solution has everything."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"My only point of contention would be that it is a little pricey."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"The center management system could be improved."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX Plus report.
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