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PROS

Kemp LoadMaster is praised for its simple and efficient installation and deployment process, which is well-documented.
The load balancing features, including support for multiple SSLs, are considered core and valuable to its functionality.
Security features such as Intrusion Prevention and Web Application Firewall receive high praise for their effectiveness in protecting critical infrastructure.
Kemp LoadMaster allows seamless management and maintenance by providing tools like Kemp 360 Central for easy firmware upgrades and an overview of all devices.
High availability options, effective failover capabilities, and scalability are major advantages that contribute to its reputation for reliability.

CONS

Some documentation is outdated and assumes familiarity with the product.
Logging requires enabling ESP, which necessitates defining allowed IP addresses, creating inconvenience.
Certificate installation is complex and requires modernization, particularly for monitoring expiration and issues.
Lack of a well-supported SCOM Management Pack and sufficient knowledge base resources makes information hard to find.
Network License Bonds (NLB) face issues in virtual environments due to licensing being coupled with the device's MAC address.
 

Kemp LoadMaster Pros review quotes

IshtiaqKhalil - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at BOK
Aug 22, 2025
We had some issues in patching management, so we deployed this product for virtual patching, the IPS rule, and it gives us very good results because we have very critical servers.
FA
Associate Engineer at AST
Nov 7, 2024
Security is considered the most effective feature in Kemp LoadMaster.
PeterForster - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 21, 2023
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple.
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RJ
General Manager at Seriti Resources
Sep 27, 2023
LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand.
AK
System Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 28, 2023
From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it.
reviewer953256 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 13, 2021
Mitigates content security policy issues.
reviewer1438461 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 10, 2023
The feature I find most valuable is load balancing with different algorithms.
reviewer1486944 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator II at Lincoln Land Community College
Jan 13, 2021
Failover is seamless and our services are rock solid.
reviewer1450248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Technology Architecture and Information Security at J.F. Shea Co., Inc.
Nov 12, 2020
When the templates are used, there is not much left to configure and they just work!
reviewer1450788 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administrator at Guardian Capital Group Ltd
Nov 9, 2020
The DNS Load Balancer makes it so that I don't have to worry about site failures.
 

Kemp LoadMaster Cons review quotes

IshtiaqKhalil - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at BOK
Aug 22, 2025
With the license purchase afterwards, if it expires, it begins dropping the HTTP traffic, also the DNS traffic.
FA
Associate Engineer at AST
Nov 7, 2024
There are some challenges with updates on certain models that don't have a few features.
PeterForster - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 21, 2023
I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement.
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RJ
General Manager at Seriti Resources
Sep 27, 2023
I want to have the ability to pull a particular server. The DevOps portion was challenging for me, like if I needed to redirect from one IP to another URL. I needed to look that up, and the knowledge base is not well organized. When I look for information about Kemp on the Internet, I don't find many articles or something like that.
AK
System Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 28, 2023
They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing.
reviewer953256 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 13, 2021
UI is very basic and unattractive.
reviewer1438461 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 10, 2023
In my opinion, the layer seven loads balancing that we're mainly using for web servers, doesn't seem to pick up when there are issues at the application level.
reviewer1486944 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator II at Lincoln Land Community College
Jan 13, 2021
It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster.
reviewer1450248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Technology Architecture and Information Security at J.F. Shea Co., Inc.
Nov 12, 2020
It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface.
reviewer1450788 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administrator at Guardian Capital Group Ltd
Nov 9, 2020
We experienced a brief period of instability.