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What is Kemp LoadMaster?
LoadMaster from Kemp Technologies in New York is an application delivery controller.
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VLM-500
1,720
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VLM-500
2,000
On Premise
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3,050
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What is Kemp LoadMaster?
Kemp hyper-performance load balancers are built to power the always-on application experience [AX] that organizations needs to succeed. Kemp boasts redefining the load balancer by providing more simplified deployments, more flexible licensing options, more throughput per $, and direct access technical support.
Kemp LoadMaster Features
- Supported: L4-7 virtual ADC and Reverse Proxy
- Supported: Fully-featured Web Application Firewall
- Supported: Global DNS & Traffic Management Services
- Supported: SSO & Secure Application Access
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Kemp LoadMaster Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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LoadMaster from Kemp Technologies in New York is an application delivery controller.
NGINX, NetScaler ADC, and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) are common alternatives for Kemp LoadMaster.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.8.
The most common users of Kemp LoadMaster are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Kemp LoadMaster has proven to be an invaluable tool for addressing performance and stability issues on marketing websites. Users have found that the content switching and header modification rules in LoadMaster have helped overcome challenges during website launches, ensuring a smooth and seamless user experience. The powerful API in LoadMaster allows for easy integration into continuous delivery pipelines, making it a popular choice among tech industry professionals. The product is widely used as a load balancer for Exchange deployments, ADFS infrastructure, and webserver farms with custom applications, providing efficient load balancing and high availability for critical systems. Kemp LoadMaster has also resolved the issue of unreliable round-robin load balancing, offering a more effective solution for inbound email balancing across multiple Microsoft Exchange servers. Its integration with various third-party tools such as Azure DevOps, Redis, and Kubernetes allows for seamless load balancing of web shops and internal tools. With features like SSL acceleration and flexible environment consolidation, Kemp LoadMaster is considered a simple and efficient load balancer that increases the capacity and reliability of applications while providing an extra layer of protection against bad actors. The deployment process of Kemp LoadMaster is logical and straightforward, enabling users to create highly available configurations without external assistance. It has been successful in providing load balancing and continuous service to web and API servers, ensuring redundancy and seamless service to users. Overall, Kemp LoadMaster addresses various business problems by improving performance, enhancing security, ensuring high availability, and streamlining operations across different industries including finance, healthcare, transportation, and technology.
Easy Configuration and Setup: Many users have praised the product for its simple and user-friendly configuration process. They appreciate the availability of templates for various use cases, which makes setting up the product straightforward.
Exceptional Support: Numerous reviewers have highlighted the exceptional support provided by the company. Whenever users encountered issues with more complex setups, they received quick assistance from the support team. This prompt and helpful support greatly enhances their experience with the product.
Value for Money: Several users feel that the product offers great value for its cost compared to its competitors. They find that the features and performance provided by the product justify its price, making it a worthwhile investment.
Outdated User Interface: Several users have expressed dissatisfaction with the outdated and in need of a refreshed modern look and feel. They mentioned that the GUI of the software is also outdated and in need of improvement. Users would appreciate a more visually appealing and intuitive interface.
Inconvenient Manual Refresh: Some users find it inconvenient that the web-based interface sometimes requires a manual refresh to show the actual status of services, which can be time-consuming and disruptive. It would be more convenient if the system automatically updated in real-time without requiring manual intervention.
Outdated Statistics and Graphs: Users have mentioned that the statistics and graphs provided by the software are outdated, making it difficult for them to make informed decisions based on real-time data. They would like to see up-to-date information presented in clear visualizations for effective monitoring and analysis.
Users have made several recommendations for the Kemp Load Balancer based on their experiences. One common recommendation is to take advantage of the free trial offered by Kemp. Users suggest that this allows potential customers to get a better feel for the product and determine if it meets their needs.
Another recommendation is to utilize the support provided by Kemp. Users have found that the support team is knowledgeable and able to assist with any issues that arise during the setup or configuration process.
Users also recommend Kemp for its ease of use and management. They mention that the initial setup, configuration, and ongoing management are straightforward, thanks to a user-friendly interface and templates that facilitate quick configuration.
Overall, users recommend Kemp as an affordable option for load balancing and reverse proxy needs, especially for multiple applications or sites.
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November 12, 2021
Powerful and cost-effective load balancer
Initially we purchased the Loadmaster to support the needs of the marketing website (performance and stability issues). But now it supports the whole organization to properly route requests to different systems for different groups of people. Loadmaster was instrumental in launching of the latest website iteration supporting the partial roll out alongside the mix of multiple systems. Content switching and header modification rules helped us overcome various challenges that we encountered. Powerful API lets us easily integration Loadmaster into our continuous delivery pipeline.
- Performance
- Powerful API
- Variety of options
- UI needs a refreshed modern look and feel
November 09, 2021
Kemp LoadMaster - Definitely all the hype
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is currently used to load the balance of all of our Alarm infrastructure creating redundancy to critical systems. This enables us to patch and perform maintenance at any time we wish. The support is also very fast under 1 hour for most issues which is critical to us for supporting the infrastructure for issues.
- Load balance
- Redundancy
- Support service
- Less technical
- More presets
- Template for certain types of services
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We needed a solution to load balance Exchange 2016 in a remote office in the event of a loss of connectivity to the main office. This site would have no onsite staff from the Exchange team so the solution needed to be reliable and easy to configure/monitor remotely. The site currently has 700 users and is growing. This, Kemp LoadMaster, was very easy to install and configure, and definitely exceeds expectations. The few times I have called support for configuration questions they were knowledgeable and responsive.
- Easy to configure
- Templates for many integrations
- Great technical support
- Not intuitive on how to fail over the active HA node.
- Nothing else comes to mind.
October 21, 2021
Fully Satisfied with the Product
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kemp [LoadMaster] is used as our load balancer for internet-facing web servers. It balances loads across all servers and also sends traffic based on the target URL. Their support has been extremely helpful with any issues we have faced so far and I have been able to solve all problems over a single call.
- [It is] easy to set up virtual servers.
- It is extremely stable and efficient.
- Support is readily available and helpful.
- [The] renewal process can be better/automated.
October 20, 2021
Kemp Review 2021
We are using Kemp LoadMaster across the whole organization. We use to load balance several VMs for business applications.
- Exchange servers
- Student information servers
- DNS servers
- Refresh page is too quick on view/modify services
October 20, 2021
Kemp LoadMaster is a rock solid load balancer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our company has used Kemp LoadMasters for several years now for load balancing our Exchange servers and a couple of web applications. They run very smoothly, with no issues at all. Their support is great, which we only occasionally have recurred to for migrating web apps from other appliances to the Kemps. They are very knowledgeable and have been very helpful in completing our project goals. Would definitely recommend Kemp products.
- Load balancing
- Reliability
- Robust support
- GUI could use some improvement
October 18, 2021
Great On-Premises Load Balancer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Kemp LoadMaster across our entire organization. We have an LB pair in our DMZ as well as a pair internal. We primarily use Kemp LoadMaster to load balance our ERP system and our DMZ-hosted websites. We've been happy with Kemp LoadMaster for 5+ years. The customer support, manuals, and appliance UI are outstanding.
- The appliances are extremely stable.
- The UI is easy to use.
- Support is great, especially for someone just starting out.
- Remembering to save certain individual pieces of the configuration while on the same configuration page can be confusing.
October 11, 2021
Kemp LoadMaster
We have implemented these for a few clients. They are quick and easy to get going and haven't failed us or our clients yet.
- Manages the incoming web traffic for various applications.
- Allows multiple connection to spread the incoming load in an efficient manner.
- Extremely easy to implement and manage.
- HA Setup and configuration
- Lack of notification why you can't manage certain aspects if HA is misconfigured
October 01, 2021
Well suited for on-premises load balancer and SSL termination
Kemp LoadMaster is being used as an on-premises load balancer and SSL termination. The product is easy to use in the browser interface. The API/CLI could use some more features to bring it on parity with the GUI. Overall it provides the needed features with ease of use and great support for our needs so far.
- On-premises load balancing
- SSL termination
- Web GUI
- API
- CLI
September 25, 2021
Want good sleep? Let Kemp help you.
We are using Kemp LoadMaster as a proxy between exchange servers, web applications, and external users to protect/balance the internal resource from the outside world. The product has been deployed in our environment for more than 5 years. We are moving more and more web applications behind this appliance to save static IP addresses and reduce the configuration between different web platforms. The load balance function also helps us continuously provide service while we are doing regular maintenance at the back-end server farm.
- SSL offloading, SSL ciphers option
- Load balance for the back-end server farm
- Product support
- Template for different web application
- Quite a lot of different options to configure popular web applications such as Exchange OWA
- The template could be more user-friendly. Kemp could provide more examples of how to customize settings instead of just giving the package.
- The configuration GUI could be better by providing a guide or more options to choose from instead of typing in.
September 25, 2021
Great Product
The whole organization uses it [Kemp LoadMaster] today. We use it to load balance Exchange servers, virtual desktop environments, and multiple in-house apps. It allows us to provide system redundancy across multiple apps and systems that keeps our uptime number high.
- Support is great.
- Ease of use and configuration
- The templates that come with the system make it easy.
- The interface could be more intuitive during setup.
September 25, 2021
Great product and even better support agents!
Kemp LoadMaster is generally used for our clients and internally. This is to help load balance Exchange HTTP and HTTPS traffic coming into the Exchange server. We also widely use this to have SMTP and SMTPS traffic load balanced as well. This way we have managed to control the kind of high load that is hitting the exchange server and have it at a much more managed level, routing it through Kemp LoadMaster.
- It is easy to set up the virtual services with templates that are readily available.
- Once the setup of the virtual services is complete, getting the service to work is also, most of the time, pretty seamless.
- When all else fails and doesn't work, the support team is usually just a call away, and I've almost always had a good experience calling them for support.
- The wait time on the calls can sometimes be quite disappointing. I have waited on calls for over 30 minutes in the past before an agent answers the call.
- For some weird reason, every time a support agent starts a remote session, our call gets disconnected. And it can sometimes be a bit of a pain to call back and speak to the same agent, as sometimes we haven't been given a ticket number as well and will have to explain the issue over again to the new agent who picks up the call. This issue happened on this call as well. Maybe it'd be good to provide ticket numbers at the start of the call?
- Maybe it is the type of microphones the agents use or because everyone is working at home currently (mostly), but the voice clarity of the call could be improved, as sometimes its difficult to hear what the agent is saying.
September 24, 2021
Kemp 2021 Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It, Kemp LoadMaster, is being used to load balance the data across our network to increase capacity (concurrent users) and reliability of applications. It is also used to provide an extra layer of protection of our data on our network to minimize access to bad actors trying to access our environment for exploitation.
- Keeps data flow leveled throughout our network.
- Helps us monitor stress on our network with data and apps.
- Support is superb when needing help with technical issues.
- Having dashboard will show which system is acting as Master or Secondary.
- Have report format clearer to isolate data.
- Kemp LoadMaster allows the option to pause renewal emails when an order is in process of renewal.
September 20, 2021
Kemp Experience
Kemp LoadMaster hosts virtual services/applications and balances the traffic from users.
- Host Virtual services/applications
- WAF acts as a firewall/layer of security
- Pricing
- Better GUI can be more informative in terms of graphs/traffic/setting up new services
- WAF can be more informative
September 16, 2021
Great product for the price and support they offer
We have two Kemp LB's across our two DC's. They balance the incoming requests between the server infrastructure that we have clustered.
- Reliability
- Load balancing
- Great support
- Not as many bells and whistles as the competitors.
- Cheaper than some competitors, but not super cheap.
- Depending on your needs there are some free options out there.
September 15, 2021
Great move to more enterprise grade direction from a free-of-charge open source app
We are using Kemp LoadMaster within our organization in different departments for different products running highly available infrastructure and requiring significant scaling. We moved from a well-known but smaller and free open-source project to something more enterprise-grade, professional, and potentially even more reliable. We are happy with Kemp LoadMaster's deployment process that felt logical and didn't have any surprises. We were able to create a HA configuration with the tool without any help, consultation, or even manuals, which always tells a great story about a good UI.
- Installation procedure
- Creating the configuration for HA
- Being stable and efficient
- Documentation should be more concise and to the point.
- There should be an LTE type of release train available.
- Use in Linux environments should be supported better.
September 14, 2021
Kemp LoadMaster RULEZ
It is used as a network load balancer throughout the organization. This ensures uninterrupted access to the business critical process.
- Load distribution between terminal servers
- Providing fault-tolerant access to S4B
- Balancing access to web resources
- Maybe trouble shooting I don't have any specific wishes yet
September 08, 2021
Kemp LoadMaster - Perfect software load-balancer
We use Kemp LoadMaster to load-balance two mail servers. Kemp software manages the virtual IP that clients point to.
- Simple, reliable, no frills load-balancer.
- Easy to set up and use.
- Great technical support.
- Menu choices could be a little less confusing.
- I cannot think of anything I dislike about the product.
- I haven't encountered any weaknesses.
September 07, 2021
KEMP LoadMaster is a really good load balancer for a fair price
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our Kemp LoadMasters are being used as a High Availability Active/Active Cluster on two sites to load balance and provide security on all inbound traffic.
It's used for all our web servers.
It addresses the business problems of:
1. Having a single point of failure for email ingress.
2. Providing a simple, robust load balancing.
3. Securing inbound traffic.
It's used for all our web servers.
It addresses the business problems of:
1. Having a single point of failure for email ingress.
2. Providing a simple, robust load balancing.
3. Securing inbound traffic.
- Easy to deploy
- Stability
- Good Support
- Well priced
- Lack of documentation
September 02, 2021
Kemp is a good partner?
Our organization has services at a country level, which implies multiple connections to web services exposed to the public, balanced through a Kemp asset.
- Support
- Load balancing
- Virtual services
- Log off button on the GUI
- Improve the graphical interface
August 31, 2021
Value for money!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Kemp LoadMaster across multiple organizations to load balance mail servers, web servers, and mobile applications. It addresses the problem of speed, reliability, load balancing, sandboxing, and no-downtime servicing. The product itself is self managed and quite robust. The VM version of the product consumes the bare minimum of CPU and memory, without even blinking with 2,000 concurrent connections at the same time (as an example). The product has enabled us to innovate and enhance our current technological landscape without worrying about adding a new infrastructure to support these innovative measures.
- Load balancing
- SSL offloading
- Web application firewall
- Balance throughput
- User Interface could be a bit more modern.
- Additional templates for other types of operating environments can be added.
Our primary requirement is load balance and protect the exchange active sync and OWA requests. We were using Microsoft TMG server previously for proxy server to protect our exchange server. We recently decided to upgrade exchange server, but MS TMG server support has expired. I was looking for a solution that can provide similar solution as TMG server. While I was talking to a consultant, they recommended Kemp load balancer. On top of proxy server, I also configured Exchange with DAG, so we needed load balancing as well. We are using it for whole corporation, and it provides the business continuity.
- Installation & configuration is really easy. The web portal is self explanatory.
- The load balancing by Kemp for our exchange server is doing excellent job.
- The tech support is par excellence.
- The backup/restore feature is so simple. In case of failure, you can bring back Kemp in a short time.
- I enjoyed the live logs and reporting in TMG server, which i miss it here.
- The license file is locked with the MAC address. In case of restoring it on a different VM would cause issue.
- The Web portal is sometimes looks more complex and confusing. It can be more simplified.
We have three LoadMaster instances. They are used to load balance connections across redundant front end web servers. This gives us added stability and scalability for critical business functions.
- Increased scalability.
- Added redundancy.
- Easy to use.
- Firmware updates could come from the cloud. Add update notifications.
- Pull templates from the cloud directly from the GUI.
May 04, 2021
Kemp: The best customer support
The Kemp LoadMaster is used for many purposes. As DNS load balancer, as WAF, as Web Application Proxy, and as Exchange security. It is used mainly in the hosting environment for our company and our customers.
It addresses security and redundancy problems. We are using a cluster of Azure Kemp LBs for DNS load balancing for a redundant data center connected with the internet. The LoadMaster is checking the ports and will just give an IP for an FQDN if the service behind this IP is online. We also use Kemp LoadMaster as a security gateway for our exchange servers, to reduce security breaches like the one in March 2021. And last but not least, we use it as a content switching instance, so we can use one web server for many websites or avoid folders behind the FQDN.
It addresses security and redundancy problems. We are using a cluster of Azure Kemp LBs for DNS load balancing for a redundant data center connected with the internet. The LoadMaster is checking the ports and will just give an IP for an FQDN if the service behind this IP is online. We also use Kemp LoadMaster as a security gateway for our exchange servers, to reduce security breaches like the one in March 2021. And last but not least, we use it as a content switching instance, so we can use one web server for many websites or avoid folders behind the FQDN.
- Reliable: We had no downtimes in the last 3 years.
- Great support: Everything you need to accomplish is just a call away.
- Easy to implement. There are templates for all used virtualization environment.
- Easy to adapt to your needs: There are many templates for the normal use cases.
- Help in other languages.
April 22, 2021
Easy to use and valuable for maximizing uptime!
We use Kemp [LoadMaster] to balance our Exchange servers and VMware Horizon connection servers. Kemp [LoadMaster] enables us to disengage a server from the available server pool so that we can do maintenance on individual servers while maintaining services to our users. Not having to schedule a maintenance window has really helped our flexibility with patching during the recent zero-day Exchange vulnerabilities this year.
- Easy to setup
- Easy to manage
- Responsive support teams
- More templates