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F5 BIG-IP

Score9.2 out of 10

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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 Review

Incentivized
Alex Torres
Cyber Security Engineer in Information Technology at Zions Bancorporation (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 BIG-IP used across our enterprise as LTM, APM, ASM. We deal with visibility problems into advance analytics not displaying full details of what we need to help troubleshoot with application owners (viprion). Additionally we have issues where we are not able to fully synchronize ASM configuration due to traffic differences between data centers.

Pros

  • Simple Flow modification on VPN configuration
  • reviewing Attack signatures and recommendations for policy changes
  • LTM side we are able to modify and change traffic flow with iRules and allow us to divert from basic options in ltm

Cons

  • F5 could have additional details within ASM Where we have trouble jumping back and forth between security events and what may of triggered the block.

Return on Investment

  • at the moment with our current hardware we have still on viprion hardware and will be using it till end of support/eol. Migration from virpion over to Rseries has been simple and easy that we already feel a return on investment with the new hardware

Usability

Other Software Used

Splunk Enterprise Security

Super star F5 BIG-IP

Incentivized
John Kao
network analyst in Information Technology at Global payments (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP's for transaction processing for our internet facing payment platforms. The have been our load balancing workhorses both in the front end and also in the backend for HSM connectivity for resiliency.

Pros

  • LTM provides excellent load balancing that using all the different algorithms.
  • ASM handles our web application security for our internet facing virtual servers

Cons

  • The user interface seems a bit outdated and needs to be refreshed
  • Allow the use of dark mode!!

Return on Investment

  • SSL offloading has been easy to manage and use and handles the workload of decryption
  • management has been very easy by defining different roles for allowing different groups to view/change their areas

Usability

Other Software Used

Cisco 350X Series Stackable Managed Switches, Fortinet FortiGate

F5 BIG-IP engineering Rocks

Incentivized
Gaurav Vasudeva
Architect in Engineering at Abbvie (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

being used as LTM/GTM. application delivery and DNS load balancing. The biggest challenge is support. F5 support is not useful at all. The team is reluctant to even call F5 support. We are being told to use F5 TAP passes which takes a while to schedule and need 4 hours minimum engagement.

Pros

  • WAAF
  • Application load balancing
  • DNS load balancing

Cons

  • AI use cases where it is missing guardrails
  • Single Management pane of glass
  • better user interface is needed. it is same old for a while

Return on Investment

  • We had DDOS enable only on one application. ROI went negative as we were not alerted untill we explicitly start looking for throttling speeds.
  • ROI is good with application load balancing

Usability

F5 BIG-IP is great

Incentivized
Micah Barge
Network engineer in Engineering at USAA (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the BIG IP LTM for all of our business purposes. We use a ton of Irules to do a bunch of content switching and we use all sorts of profiles on our virtuals. One problem we have had was with the dag algorithm and had to change it as some TMM were taking to much. We then saw traffic drop when it we changed the algorithm as it was learning the new has.

Pros

  • All the different profiles for every use.
  • making it easy to understand how load balancing works

Cons

  • Id like to see a better way to see the virtuals. if there are to many it takes a while to load

Return on Investment

  • We are able to push forward projects fast with F5 even if its not the right way we can still get stuff done on time as we talk through things.

Usability

Happy BIG-IP customer.

Greg Overley
Senior Systems Programmer in Information Technology at Clark County, NV (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been a Big-IP customer for nearly 20 years, and it is a crucial part of our app delivery infrastructure. On our Public sites, we also leverage ASM and bot defense, and it has been a huge help.

Pros

  • Configurable load balancing.
  • iRules to further customize balancing and redirection of traffic.
  • The platform is solid and dependable.

Cons

  • Analytics and insights.
  • Easier cert management.
  • Unified management console.

Return on Investment

  • It's hard to quantify the value that the security features have brought us.
  • Ease of management and speed of app deployment reduces man hours needed.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware Avi Load Balancer

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