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F5 BIG-IP

Score9.2 out of 10

400 Reviews and Ratings

What is F5 BIG-IP?

F5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis.

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F5 BIG-IP Reviews

What users are saying about F5 BIG-IP.
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Pros

  • Efficient application traffic load balancing
  • Robust Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities
  • Ensures high application availability and uptime

Cons

  • Outdated and complex user interface
  • Limited automation capabilities and API integration
  • Challenging configuration synchronization

Incentivized
Linh Le
Budget Analyst in Finance and Accounting at University of Washington (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So every time I log into my work ID, and if I want to connect to my Z drive or any drive for my department, then they ask me to log in to the F5 BIG-IP. And after that, I think there's a certain number of hours that they let you use it, and then they lock you out. So it's hard when you work on something, and somehow you save it, but it's not saved, so you have to log back in and then save the file. So I'm not sure if there's a better way for us to keep it open longer during our work hours instead of logging back in and out every single time.

Pros

  • My company is kind of like it's a safe thing if you log in and you provide another second login to get the code to log in, confirm that it's a correct that you are logged into the account and it just provides more for the company

Cons

  • I haven't seen any problem with it yet, but it's very efficient. I just log in, and if they ask me to log in again, I just log in again. When I log into my work computer, it's already lock in. I just need to log into the F5 BIG-IP for it to connect to the online account or Z drive that we have

Usability

F5 BIG-IP Review

Incentivized
Diego Granda
Systems engineer in Information Technology at CPN (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 BIG-IP is our primary application load balancer. It allows our customers to access our applications from anywhere in the world and enables our infrastructure to efficiently distribute the load. Before its implementation, managing on-premises infrastructure was much more complex and required significant investment. Now we can do much more without additional investment.

F5 BIG-IP es nuestro principal balanceador de aplicaciones. Permite que nuestros clientes puedan acceder a nuestras aplicaciones desde cualquier Lugar del Mundo y que nuestra infraestructura puedan distribuir la carga eficientemente. Antes de su implementacion la administracion de la infraestructura en premisa era mucho mas compleja y se requeria de inversiones importantes. Actualmente Podemos hacer mucho mas sin necesidad de inversiones adicionales,

Pros

  • Application Balancing
  • WAF
  • Balanceo de aplicaciones

Cons

  • Unintuitive interface
  • ease for creating erules.
  • Interface poco intuitiva
  • facilidad para creation de erules.

Return on Investment

  • Higher transactional flow
  • Biggest business
  • Mayor flujo transaccional
  • Mayor negocio

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Radware Alteon and Citrix DaaS

Other Software Used

Fortinet FortiGate, Radware DefensePro

F5 BIG-IP for load balancing

Incentivized
Marcelo Morote
IT Manager in Engineering at Folha de S.Paulo (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The solution functions as a load balancing tool (LTM) and WAF. This solution is installed on virtual machines (Virtual Edition, Big IP) contracted under a subscription model, operating in an active/passive model. In addition, it has APM functions for endpoint VPNs, with security validation of the equipment.

A solução funciona como ferramenta de balanceamento de carga (ltm) e WAF, essa solucao esta instalada en maquinas virtuais (Virtual edition, big ip) contratados no Modelo de subscricao funcionando no Modelo ativo / passivo, alem disso tem as funcoes da APM para VPNs de endpoints, com validacao de deguranca does equipamentos

Pros

  • balancing
  • airule
  • waf
  • apm
  • balanceamento

Cons

  • Integration with distributed cloud is still poor.
  • big IQ management tool
  • modern ztna solutions
  • integracao com distributed cloud ainda e ruim
  • ferramenta de gerencia big IQ
  • solucoen de ztna mais modernas

Return on Investment

  • documentation
  • ease of use of the ADC
  • You need knowledgeable partners.
  • documentacao
  • facilidade de uso do adc
  • Precisa de parceiros com conhecimento

Usability

F5 BIG-IP the Gate Keeper

Incentivized
Somatheran Balakrishnan
Senior Network Lead Engineer in Finance and Accounting at BCS (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We using BF5 BIG-IP for both load balancing and DNS resolution. We have external clients which need to communicate with our internal servers. So F5 BIG-IP here helps us to act as proxy to load balance the traffic to servers. We also use F5 GTM as an external DNS resolution for external clients.

Pros

  • In monitoring servers node and detect the availability of the node
  • To load balance the traffics among 2 data center servers
  • To perform health check of the nodes via URL

Cons

  • I want F5 to perform intelligent choose the nodes member based on source addresses.
  • Intelligent routing based on less load servers node

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact is that this F5 help us in gate keeping our traffics flow between internal and external network.
  • Negative impact is very less but sometimes the accuracy in performing health via URL is a issue.

Usability

Other Software Used

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne), CheckPoint, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention

F5 BIG-IP in highly supervised sectors

Incentivized
Jasiel Gonzalez
Network Manager in Engineering at Crediclub (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Applications in critical systems that require high availability to comply with regulatory systems

Aplicaciones en sistemas críticos y que requieren alta disponibilidad para cumplir sistemas normativos

Pros

  • Documentation
  • Stability
  • Applications (Uses)
  • Documentación
  • Estabilidad
  • Aplicaciones (Usos)

Cons

  • Price
  • Sales Support
  • Technical Team Support
  • Precio
  • Apoyo de Ventas
  • Apoyo de Equipo Tecnico

Return on Investment

  • The return on investment is usually slow or barely noticeable.
  • Updates require long windows
  • El retorno de inversión suele ser lento o poco perceptible
  • Las actualizaciones requieren ventanas largas

Usability

Alternatives Considered

A10 Networks Thunder TPS

Other Software Used

NGINX, NGINX Ingress Controller

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