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F5 BIG-IP Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10
Score
9.2 out of 10

Reviews

207 Reviews

VPN solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use F5 BIG-IP to address a business problem - VPN connectivity with different solutions

For us, F5 BIG-IP is A robust and scalable solution, allowing deep integration with other security and traffic management modules.

Pros

  • security
  • remote access
  • IPsec VPN

Cons

  • I think that there is room for improvement for F5 BIG-IP with remote support
  • In my opinion, F5 BIG-IP has room for improvement with the cloud solution
  • In my experience, F5 BIG-IP has room for improvement with training

Likelihood to Recommend

I am likely to share with a colleague that with F5 BIG-IP it is necessary to implement automation tools

F5 BIG-IP - Best load balance

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in the application delivery of new products and in the ecosystem of our authorizers. Every company transaction goes through F5 BIG-IP, a device that brings resilience to our business.

Pros

  • Ssl offload
  • Lord balance for aplication
  • Scalability
  • Security

Cons

  • Mtls
  • Full proxy
  • Irules

Likelihood to Recommend

Scale a specific product in a promotional campaign where volume will be increased

The best load balancer in the market

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need to load balances some critical applications and be PCI compliance . we also need high availability and throughput to permit a big amount of traffic between clients and applications , we have nearly 20 services exposes in the front application and 2 Datacenter in a high availability configuration. we test al traffic and the application performance and all was ok

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Service performance report
  • Policy for every application
  • Routing and security based in service

Cons

  • Graphic user interface
  • Reporting
  • IA for I rules

Likelihood to Recommend

Local traffic manager load balance service performance is the best , SSL offloading works well.

Vetted Review

F5 BIG-IP Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use F5 primarily for website security, and it's a great help for detection and protection.

Actualmente utilizamos F5 esencialmente para seguridad en nuestros sitios web y es de gran ayuda para deteccion y proteccion.

Pros

  • Certificate management
  • Security protection
  • Gestion de certificados
  • Proteccion de seguridad

Cons

  • better interface for graphics are very static and not very intuitive
  • mejor interfaz para los graficos son muy estaticos y poco intuitivos

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very good for security protection and administration, but it is not very friendly for reporting and information analysis.

es muy bueno para la proteccion de seguridad y su administracion, no es muy amigable para los reportes y el analisis de informacion.

<i>This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.</i>

Vetted Review

Big-IP review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

La necesidad de balancear tráfico en una plataforma de uso masivo nos llevó a trabajar con Big-IP como líder del mercado en el segmento. La plataforma trabaja con varias instancias virtuales y sin problemas.

The need to balance traffic on a mass-market platform led us to work with Big-IP, a market leader in the segment. The platform works seamlessly with multiple virtual instances.

Pros

  • Distribución de tráfico
  • Traffic Distribution
  • Segmentación de arquitecturas
  • Architecture segmentation
  • Visibilidad en cuanto a estadísticas
  • Visibility in terms of statistics

Cons

  • Si bien las estadísticas funcionan, sería muy bueno que fueran más flexibles en cuanto a la visualización.
  • While the statistics work, it would be great if they were more flexible in terms of display.

Likelihood to Recommend

Escenarios de manejo intensivo de tráfico contra plataformas de aplicación. Manejo de muchos escenarios de balanceo. Arquitectura full proxy. Manejo de sesiones. Modularidad que se apega a las necesidades del cliente, los módulos se pueden activar o desactivar con facilidad.

Traffic-intensive scenarios against application platforms. Handling of multiple load balancing scenarios. Full proxy architecture. Session management. Modularity that adapts to client needs; modules can be easily activated or deactivated.

Great

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Las soluciones de f5 BigIp las hemos utilizado principalmente sobre teams de balanceo de aplicaciones y de Cargas, ayudando a solventar consumo de direccionamiento IPv4 eficientiando el uso del recurso.

We have mainly used F5 BIG-IP solutions on application and load balancing equipment, helping to solve IPv4 address consumption and making efficient use of resources.

Pros

  • Balanceo
  • Balancing
  • Seguridad
  • Security
  • NAT

Cons

  • mejorar en que sea mas inductiva su interface
  • improve to make its interface more inductive

Likelihood to Recommend

Esencial en los temas de optimization[on de recurso como direccionamiento IP, robustecer seguridad, simoplificar aplicaciones.

Essential in resource optimization topics such as IP addressing, strengthening security, simplifying applications

Vetted Review

My experience as a user with F5 equipment

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

El producto F5 lo utilizamos como balanceador tanto para servicios expuestos a internet como uso interno, esto por que se necesitaba tener una solucion que nos optimizara la forma de tratar el trafico y proteger de cualquier ataque.

We use the F5 BIG-IP product as a load balancer for both Internet-facing services and internal use. This is because we needed a solution that would optimize the way we handled traffic and protect against any attacks.

Pros

  • Balanceador de carga
  • Load balancer
  • Proteccion WAF
  • WAF Protection
  • Servicios LTM o IP intelligencd
  • LTM or IP intelligence services

Cons

  • Uso de irules
  • Use of Irules

Likelihood to Recommend

Como balanceador de carga funciona bien y tambien a la hora de limitar conexiones en el cual una vez se detecto un ataque donde se monitoreo conexiones masivas y este los limito de forma exitosa en el servidor.

As a load balancer it works well and also when limiting connections in which once an attack was detected where massive connections were monitored and it successfully limited them on the server

Vetted Review

Access Network

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Utilizamos F5 como Balanceador de carga y equipo de seguridad en el front end de algunas plataformas. Los problemas actuales son la falta de visibilidad (telemetria) para la identification de problemas y fallas a nivel aplicativo.

We use F5 BIG-IP as a load balancer and security device on the front end of some platforms. The current challenges are a lack of visibility (telemetry) to identify problems and failures at the application level.

Pros

  • Balances de carga
  • Load Balancing
  • Perfiles y persistencias
  • Profiles and persistences
  • Seguridad ssl
  • Secure SSL
  • Politics de seguridad
  • Security Policy
  • Kpis de consumos y estadisticos
  • Consumption KPIs and statistics

Cons

  • Mejorar el modulo AVR en Tmos
  • Improve the AVR module in Tmos
  • Big IP Next supports AFM

Likelihood to Recommend

En resolucion de dominos a nivel politica AFM para establecer permisos y reglas especificas. Deben mejorar la visibilidad en Las graficas de AVR y Analiticos, actualmente no es granular, lo que no ayuda mucho en escenarios onde hay que identificar comportamientos inusuales.

In domain resolution at the AFM policy level to establish specific permissions and rules.

Visibility in the AVR and Analytics charts should be improved; currently, it is not granular, which is not very helpful in scenarios where unusual behavior needs to be identified.

Vetted Review

I recommend F5 Big-IP

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Actualmente lo utilizamos como un balanceador en el cual nos ayuda a distribuir las conexiones en multiples servicios. Nos sirve para no sobrecargar el back-end de nuestra infraestructura y podes publicar una misma IP y servicio al resto de los usuarios. No teniendo que preocuparnos redirigiendo todas las conexiones a un mismo equipo.

We currently use it as a load balancer, helping us distribute connections across multiple services. It helps us avoid overloading our infrastructure's back-end and allows us to publish the same IP address and service to other users. We don't have to worry about redirecting all connections to the same computer.

Pros

  • Balanceo
  • Balancing
  • Gestion del trafico
  • Traffic management
  • Seguridad
  • Security

Cons

  • Inteligencia artificial para crear irules
  • Artificial intelligence to create irules
  • Observabilidad en una plataforma unificada
  • Observability in a unified platform
  • Que traduzca las necesidades del usuario con IA a la programacion necesaria
  • That translates user needs with AI into the necessary programming

Likelihood to Recommend

Es adecuado en el balanceo de cargas lo que permite no estresar los servidores que se encuentran en el backend y da la posibilidad de poder reducir la multiplicidad de conexiones en caso de que sea necesaria de esta manera un problema de multiples conexiones puede ser detenido antes de que afecte infraestructura critica.

It is suitable for load balancing, which allows not to stress the servers that are in the backend and gives the possibility of being able to reduce the multiplicity of connections if necessary. In this way, a problem of multiple connections can be stopped before it affects critical infrastructure.

Vetted Review

Review on F5 BIG-IP

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using F5 BIG-IP for our load balancing and it gives us granular control over traffic routing and health monitoring. We have better visibility of traffic now. It also supports active - standby and active - active failover modes. This ensures that our traffic disruption is kept to minimal.

Pros

  • High Availability
  • Traffic visibility
  • IRules

Cons

  • Expensive licensing
  • Complex upgrades
  • Hardware dependency

Likelihood to Recommend

A well suited scenario to use F5 BIG-IP will be for Financial institutions operating across multiple regions. Big IP provides high availability and advanced load balancing. For scenarios where F5 BIG-IP is not appropriate will be for small startup with a low budget and do not have the capability to manage the system.

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