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Rating: 10 out of 10
May 09, 2024
CG
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1 year of experience
- Load Balancing.
- External DNS Traffic.
- DNS Traffic Pass-through.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.
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Rating: 10 out of 10
May 9, 2024This used to be used for external DNS traffic. However, this is now being used as a load balancer. It works well for our organization.
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1 year of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024Problem:
1. Auto switch ISPs
2. Load balancing internet across ISPs
Verified user
Vice-President
2 years of experienceF5 Big IP review
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024Problem:
1. Have few ISP but need to manually change when 1 of them is down.
2. Manage load balancing from all ISP
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Vice-President
2 years of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 22, 2024For our use case, we make use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to front and load balance critical services. Depending on the service, use the various load balancing available t...
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Engineer
1 year of experienceUse case of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in a national pharmacy application project
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 22, 2024We use the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to load balance the Web traffic for our national level application Web services.
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Consultant
4 years of experienceOur Experience withF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024We are using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to deliver almost all of our applications, be it web-based apps, API gateway for mobile apps, and also act as an ingress controlle...
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Engineer
4 years of experienceF5 LTM to supporting BAU process
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 22, 2024We use LTM for our daily BAU, and it performs as we expected to load balance our servers
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Manager
2 years of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 22, 2024F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager used for normal load balancing functions.
We use SSL offloading and virtualised appliances.
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Manager
15 years of experienceThe F5 LTMs have had a very positive impact on our business objectives
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024We have a ton of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) in our environment. The business problems that our F5 LTMs address are how to front end new services like MS Teams call ...
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Engineer
12 years of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) An Indeed Need In The Apps World
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 13, 2024The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is used to load balance 100s of applications in both On-premise and Cloud in our organization. The applications are always deployed i...
Verified user
Analyst
13 years of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is great
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to securely deliver all of our applications in a safe and redundant fashion. LTM helps us keep a stable and efficient application enviro...
Verified user
Engineer
12 years of experienceAbility to change HTTP headers and redirect traffic based on criteria in iRules
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024We load balance majority of your applications to provide redundancy across datacenters. We also provide APM based SSL VPN access to uses and business partners. Provide SSL cer...
Positive ROI when the app dev have weird use case the F5 BIG-IP LTM can usually make that happen
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024I use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to load balance between servers OnPrem and sni policy to our apps deployed in the cloud.
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Administrator
3 years of experienceAddressing high availability for our older legacy applications with F5 BIG-IP LTM
Rating: 8 out of 10
February 13, 2024We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to Load Balance our critical internal and external applications. This helps us address high availability for our older legacy appl...
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Manager
10 years of experienceF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has provided us more opportunities to expand our capabilities
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 13, 2024I used F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load balancing in our organization. I do like the management of the local traffic and how its broken down. It provides us easy...
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1 year of experience
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) includes static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure. Application proxies give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM also tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers in a group, ensuring that applications are not just always on, but also are easier to scale and manage. BIG-IP LTM delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.
BIG-IP LTM aims to improve page load times and the user experience with HTTP/2, intelligent caching, extensive connection optimization and management, and compression. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions based on application and server conditions, enables rules customization and programmability, and TCP and content offloading.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Features
- Supported: SSL Acceleration - Offloads SSL encryption from infrastructure and frees up resources to boost application performance.
- Supported: Full proxy provides inspection, management, and analytics of traffic entering and existing in the network.
- Supported: Automate layer 4-7 application services with F5's declaritive REST APIs.
- Supported: iRules scripting language—F5’s event driven traffic scripting interface—enables programmatic analysis, manipulation, and detection of all aspects of the traffic in networks
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Competitors
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.
NetScaler ADC, HAProxy Community Edition, and Kemp LoadMaster are common alternatives for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
The most common users of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Reduce downtime when ISP is down
- Auto switch to another ISP when one of them down
- Load balancing the connection
F5 Big IP review
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Load balancing all ISP automatically
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Load balancing
- Monitoring
Use case of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in a national pharmacy application project
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
4 years of experience
- Fail over when a node is down
- Balance and distribute the connection traffic between 4 nodes of Web servers
- Management of the load balancing policies
Our Experience withF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Serving more than 20 thousand concurrent connections on a single virtual server to handle API gateway for a mobile app
F5 LTM to supporting BAU process
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Load balance
- Persistence profile
- Source NAT
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
Rating: 6 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
15 years of experience
- Good Loadbalancing functionality
- Possible scripting
- Reliable platform
The F5 LTMs have had a very positive impact on our business objectives
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
12 years of experience
- Does web traffic management very well.
- To allow API's to work with our in house services
- To make intelligent load balancing decisions.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) An Indeed Need In The Apps World
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
13 years of experience
- iRules implementation in case of handling some critical routing logics.
- Policies to add/remove the HTTP response headers as required by the application and security to be compliance
- Import and update SSL certificates. It is very easy to update the certificate to the profiles seamlessly without impact to the users with no downtime.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is great
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
12 years of experience
- Application Delivery
- Load Balancing
- Security
- Programmable via iRules
Ability to change HTTP headers and redirect traffic based on criteria in iRules
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
CW
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Load balancing
- APM provides a secure SSL VPN Solution
- Capability of running on modern hypervisors
Positive ROI when the app dev have weird use case the F5 BIG-IP LTM can usually make that happen
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- load-balancing
- HA flip from standby to active instantly
- api documentation
Addressing high availability for our older legacy applications with F5 BIG-IP LTM
Rating: 8 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Health Checks for servers and apps
- Load Balances anything on the network.
- Supports High Availability.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has provided us more opportunities to expand our capabilities
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- management of nodes and pools
- management of networks Vips and vlans
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) preserves resources in the virtualization environment
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
ED
Vetted Review
Verified User
12 years of experience
- load balance
- Route into private VLANs
Redundancy and failover capabilities
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
12 years of experience
- Redundancy and failover capabilities
- Traffic Shaping
- High Availability
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for application scale and redundancy in a localized environment
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
12 years of experience
- Pool member monitoring / health check
- Ease of deployment
- Use of parent profiles for configuration consistency
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manage is a huge part of our F5 solutions in day to day bsuiness and practices
Rating: 9 out of 10
February 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- deployment of nodes pools and vips
- troubelshooting and health checks
- open support calls quickly qkview
Easy peasy
Rating: 9 out of 10
April 27, 2023
JC
Vetted Review
Verified User
7 years of experience
- Load balance traffic
- Reliable connections
- Easy to manage
The best and easy to use feature rich load balancer
Rating: 9 out of 10
September 05, 2022
MY
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Load Balancing
- SSL Offloading
- Server Monitoring