LoadMaster

Kommentare: Great load balancers for our Microsoft Exchange mail systems at an affordable cost.

Vorteile: Very flexible and affordable load balancers. They work great, with very little hands-on maintenance required to keep them running smooth.

Nachteile: Kemp unexpectedly raised the prices on their maintenance plans, and they now cost double what they did a few years ago. This was quite a shock to us since we had not received any sort of warning that their maintenance prices were going to be increased, and they had no flexibility on this price change. We had already budgeted for the maintenance renewal based on a budgetary quote they gave us a few months before the price change, and as a result we had to go severely over budget in order to keep our equipment covered.

Kommentare: We improved outlook performance and stability for the end users, during daily business but also reduce service interruptions during maintenance windows. The load master is built as a virtual appliance and we set it up in a cluster, so that it is fully redundant. We are looking into using it also to balance other applications, which Kemp can do as well.

Vorteile: KEMP have a partnership with Microsoft in order to load balance Exchange which was a great plus for us while selecting the right product since we wanted mainly to loadbalance Exchange for the Outlook client in order to minimize interruptions during maintenance windows or simply to balance connections. The great thing is also that the virtual appliance allows you to load balance your application but without the need of adding hardware to your datacenter. this is a great approach and the technology has proven to work as expected without issues.

Nachteile: There is a well written administration guide which needs to read extensively before setting up services. This is not a product where complexity is taking away from the administrator. Lots of options, sometimes a matter of try and retry before all works. UI could be improved.

Kommentare: Great support from pre-sales to Post sales to pro services. Everyone I've interacted with knows their core competencies extremely well.

Vorteile: Easy to deploy in all situations. Varying license types to accommodate most users.

Nachteile: It's not terribly intuitive when you come from another competing Vendor.

Kommentare: Our high load solutions are very scalable; enabling HTTP/2 was literally checking a single checkbox.

Vorteile: The KEMP load balancers just work. For our purpose where we have about 25.000 concurrent users working on various web applications, it's a simple and easy solution that makes the entire application much more scalable.

Nachteile: The KEMP has a built in feature to do caching. I would like to be able to specify exactly which file types I want to specify; KEMP has it the other way around where you can specify certain things NOT to cache. Also, the way to temporarily disable real servers is a bit weird; you can disable a real server, but the system will keep sending existing users to that server, yet it won't show in the statistics how much traffic is going to the server.

Kommentare: This is an affordable alternative to F5 and some of the more expensive load balancers on the market.

Vorteile: Kemp's pricing makes this product much more affordable than other options on the markete.

Nachteile: Lack of some advanced features other competitors have