F5 BIG-IP DNS vs. Huawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 BIG-IP DNS
Score 9.2 out of 10
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F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.N/A
Huawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Elastic Load Balance (ELB) on Huawei Cloud automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to balance their workloads, increasing service capabilities and fault tolerance of applications.N/A
Pricing
F5 BIG-IP DNSHuawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer
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Offerings
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F5 BIG-IP DNSHuawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
F5 BIG-IP DNSHuawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(17 ratings)
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Usability
8.3
(6 ratings)
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User Testimonials
F5 BIG-IP DNSHuawei Cloud Elastic Load Balancer
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
Less appropriate: - Not best bet for startup’s as their budget is always tight - Not good for those companies where the engineers are not highly skilled otherwise the use Irules and security policies will not be utilised in optimal manner as it requires more cpu resources to work especially irules - For companies fully on cloud doesn’t best fit as I already highlighted cloud require more improvements when it comes to seamless performance Best Suited -Large enterprise companies where budget is not an issue - Companies whose traffic Rate Per Second is very high as it can handle huge RPS without latency - Companies whose business is surely depends on their availability
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Huawei Technologies
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Pros
F5
  • Routing the traffic to multiple data centers deployed in different locations
  • Examines the servers health, performance metrics and do evaluation on the basis of geography as well to redirect queries to optimal destination
  • Provides rate limiting feature to mitigate DDos and DNS flood attacks
  • Best in routing the traffic to multiple clouds including on prem resources
  • Faster results of the queries and reduced latency is one of the biggest advantages of F5 BIG-IP DNS
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Huawei Technologies
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Cons
F5
  • I'd like to see better reporting capabilities on the decision-making process for DNS resolutions. Currently there are plenty of log messages for that, but I'd like to see tighter integration into the GUI.
  • It could be an improvement to better discriminate features intended for AA vs LDNS functionality within the GUI.
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Huawei Technologies
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
We use this heavily and it is one of the best products out there for this type of use case. We already have LTMs and to leverage GTM on top of that is just a piece of cake. Everything is so well integrated its amazing
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Huawei Technologies
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Usability
F5
Most important usability of F5 BIG-IP DNS is it’s stability which other vendors lack -As mentioned earlier as well, it’s scalability is humongous as it can honour millions of request per second without latency - irules feature makes it top and worthy to fight with top contenders like cloudflare and Cisco - Moreover it’s stable even when the Rate Per second is high and at the same time, DDos occurs - Interface is user friendly for simple tasks but requires more manual work - TAC should provide more assistance when it comes to normal support as well but they do offer professional support license for tasks which other vendor assist on normal license as well
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Huawei Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
F5
As I mentioned, the GSLB capability, being able to do intelligent DNS by having access to monitor specific endpoints associated to my current BIG-IP infrastructure, I believe that brings a huge value, then combine fast responses and security.
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Huawei Technologies
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Return on Investment
F5
  • Saved almost 1.2 million USD for one of critical activities as downtime could have posed this but due to failover based on health checks saved these bucks
  • Business impact which can be caused due to DDos attacks avoided
  • High cost licensing as mentioned earlier as well
  • Analytical limitations as F5 has also mentioned multiple it’s not an analytical tool
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Huawei Technologies
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