Our primary use case for OpenVPN is remote connectivity for clients in the mining exploration industry, specifically for winter road and ice road access.
OpenVPN Access Server (25 Connected Devices) / Self-Hosted VPN
OpenVPN Inc. | 2.13.1Linux/Unix, Ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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What do you like best about the product?
Openvpn UI and dashboard user management
What do you dislike about the product?
Versioning and not able work with mac os that easily or sotimes looses connectivity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for security to dissallow the external aacess from world
easy to deploy and manage
What do you like best about the product?
one of the few good working MFA vpn on-premise solutions
What do you dislike about the product?
you cannot buy 3 or 7 licenses and need to go for 10 users bundle, which is discouraging small customers. if you have need for 5 it is extremely unfair to pay foor 10 just because there is n other way
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VPN with MFA
OpenVPN does the job
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity, stability, and ease of implementation have been big for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a low-feature VPN. There is not a lot of the bells and whistles you see with other enterprise VPNs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OpenVPN is providing a low-management IT VPN solution for us on top of our standard user VPN.
Remote connectivity solution with client familiarity and OS integration for winter road access
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of OpenVPN are its ease of use, client familiarity, end-user familiarity, operating system integration, and price points. The scalability is a bonus since it allows running on any hardware. It's part of our client stack for all of our clients' VPNs and is a de facto standard for an endpoint VPN solution.
What needs improvement?
OpenVPN could improve in centralized management and enhance the GUI configuration steps. Although it's straightforward, if I don't know what I am doing, ease of use and configuration might be challenging. I would rate ease of configuration around a five or six out of ten.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have had experience with OpenVPN for several years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of OpenVPN is very good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate it an eight.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would give OpenVPN a six out of ten for scalability, as it's usually a single user or single device.
How are customer service and support?
I have not dealt with support or customer service, however, the documentation is good, and I would rate it a seven out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have not switched from another solution as OpenVPN is part of the default stack with most of our routers.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for OpenVPN is straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
It's a one-person job for implementation, and all of our technicians can deploy it.
What was our ROI?
There is not much to mention in terms of return on investment, other than providing standard VPN connectivity.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing is excellent as the pricing is free.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are slowly replacing it with WireGuard solutions.
What other advice do I have?
OpenVPN could improve the GUI and configuration steps. Overall, it's a straightforward deployment, however, it would be challenging for someone without technical knowledge. I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Simple and solid!
What do you like best about the product?
We've been using OpenVPN connect for nearly 2 years to allow our DevOps team conneciton into AWS resource.
It was quick to push out to our user base with InTune and easy to setup SAML to use Entra 365 MFA authentication. Solid and simple UI with easy to access connection logs.
Having contacted support twice I was connected with the right folk immediately, no messing around with first line - straight to the devs!
It was quick to push out to our user base with InTune and easy to setup SAML to use Entra 365 MFA authentication. Solid and simple UI with easy to access connection logs.
Having contacted support twice I was connected with the right folk immediately, no messing around with first line - straight to the devs!
What do you dislike about the product?
Users with slightly flakey wifi connections can get annoyed with having to re-authenticate using their MFA device.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides secure MFA protected access to our AWS environments.
Great project but definitely not enterprise-ready yet
What do you like best about the product?
Pros:
- easy to admin and use
- most platforms supported
- supports per-user and per-group customizations (like auth and routing), SAML and custom auth
- responsive support team
- easy to admin and use
- most platforms supported
- supports per-user and per-group customizations (like auth and routing), SAML and custom auth
- responsive support team
What do you dislike about the product?
Cons:
- in a cluster configuration it's impossible to customize all member servers from a single interface - admin UI switches you to a certain server and then you need to switch back to the cluster configuration; can't see all connected users (have to switch between cluster members)
- you can't restrict vpn connections to certain IPs/subnets for a user or group
- can't tweak vpn connections to fight against DPIs
- support team is responsive but helpless - all our feature requests were ignored by their developers
- no publicly available development roadmap
- inability to track vpn user activities as compliance requires
- in a cluster configuration it's impossible to customize all member servers from a single interface - admin UI switches you to a certain server and then you need to switch back to the cluster configuration; can't see all connected users (have to switch between cluster members)
- you can't restrict vpn connections to certain IPs/subnets for a user or group
- can't tweak vpn connections to fight against DPIs
- support team is responsive but helpless - all our feature requests were ignored by their developers
- no publicly available development roadmap
- inability to track vpn user activities as compliance requires
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure access to our environments
Easy VPN I would recommend.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, secure. Great UI. Setup is was painless
What do you dislike about the product?
Logging in every day is a pain. It could cache the authentication at least for a week.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solves the issue of accessing our dev and test servers. Secures our environment.
Best access server we tried
What do you like best about the product?
the easy deployment process is one of the things we appreciate
What do you dislike about the product?
I think you need to redesign the web interface, maybe add filters on searching
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem that OVPN AS resolves is the access to our data
VPN client with many features
What do you like best about the product?
Compared to other VPN clients I have used this has so many more features like connection stats and connecting via url
What do you dislike about the product?
When I first started using it I struggled a little to understand how exactly to use it. I didn;t feel it was intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps you to connect to your Virtual private Cloud(or server) using VPN (Virtual private network). I personally used to establish client to site connection my aws vpc
Easy to use and helps communicate with office servers
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to communicate with our servers located in the office.
What is most valuable?
OpenVPN Access Server is a simple and easy-to-use solution that I can use myself without anybody's help.
What needs improvement?
The solution should provide a faster connection, and its security could be improved. The solution’s stability could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenVPN Access Server for two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the solution a seven or eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 50 users use the solution regularly in our organization.
I rate the solution’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is complex and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a seven or eight out of ten.
What about the implementation team?
The solution’s deployment did not take much time.
What other advice do I have?
The solution was deployed on the cloud in our organization. More than 100 people are needed for the solution's deployment and maintenance.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
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