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F5 BIG-IP Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10
Score
9.2 out of 10

Reviews

251 Reviews

Happy BIG-IP customer.

Rating: 10 out of 10

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't know of any scenarios where Big-IP would be a bad choice.

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

F5 Premiere Load Balancer

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Routing multiple uris to servers and pools, some DNS work GTM, gslb

Pros

  • Load Balance to my servers
  • Multi URI vip to pass to multiple servers
  • datagroups to help create a single VIP with multiple uris
  • GTM routing across data centers

Cons

  • Some labeling on their fields
  • fields are not big enough to show data
  • file sync across data centers

Likelihood to Recommend

Running multiple apps/URIs through to a server or servers

JB
Jon Bentley
Senior software engineer in Engineering at Church of Jesus Christ (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review

F5 BIG-IP

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to load balance our ERP.

Pros

  • Very granular allowing use to make fine adjustments
  • highly available enabling us to have better SLAa
  • gives detailed logging

Cons

  • some things require a lot of adjustment to work, like syslog over SSL required us a lot of config changes and still doesn't function quite right

Likelihood to Recommend

I have and continue to recommend F5 BIG-IP LTM to my peers. It's just more powerful in customization.

DG
Daniel Graves
Enterprise Architect in Information Technology at Brady (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review

My thoughts on F5 BIG-IP

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the F5 BIG-IP to load balance traffic between our app servers to ensure equal usage. This solves the issue of traffic congestion.

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • waf
  • firewalling

Cons

  • gui, trends to hang and get bogged down
  • waf options are kinda of hard to understand and navigate
  • SSL certs and profiles could use and update to streamline uploading and adding certs to profiles

Likelihood to Recommend

on prem load balancing for app or web app traffic.

IS
Ian Shutler
Network Security Administrator in Information Technology at Paycom (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
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This is it

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, F5 BIG-IP is the heart of network infrastructure

Pros

  • I think Load Balancing is done well in F5 BIG-IP
  • I think F5 BIG-IP does IP Security well
  • I think Versatility is done well in F5 BIG-IP

Cons

  • I think the Excessive config options in F5 BIG-IP have room for improvement
  • In my opinion, Documentation has room for improvement in F5 BIG-IP

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 BIG-IP to a colleague for, in my experience, Meeting the need of our environment with flexible options

BC
Benjamin Curry
F5 Engineer in Information Technology at Church of Jesus Christ (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
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F5 BIG- IP Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a delivery engineer that specializes in providing F5 migration and implementation services for our customers. We focus on upgrades, EoL, migrations, and other adhoc services.

Pros

  • The configuration utility is great and consistent across different major versions.
  • It is easy to use and easy to educate customers on how to manage day to day operations.
  • The commands are simple and the tmsh list and tmsh show commands give great output to aid in creating deliverables for customers.

Cons

  • The memory management for versions 17 often need some adjustment, it would be nice to have the default values be increased so they appliance did not experience issues out of the box when multiple modules are provisioned.
  • The guided configuration that replaced iApps seems a little buggy and slow.

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 BIG-IP is great when you need to assess your application health. Managing the F5s are simple, and it is a great load balancer compared to something like Citrix, where that product isn't very intuitive. Also, there are a lot of VScode extensions that help with automation tasks.

VU
Verified User
Consultant in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review

F5 BIG-IP Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use F5 BIG-IP for application load balancing and traffic management. The business problems the F5 BIG-IP addresses is reliability and seamless redundancy when it comes to application delivery for our systems.

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Traffic management

Cons

  • Web interface guidance

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for managing traffic to different systems and being able to load balance between locations/servers.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review

My F5 BIG-IP experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 BIG-IP is used for LTM and GTM

Pros

  • LTM
  • GTM

Cons

  • HA syncing between GTM's and LTM's is not easy to maintain when using self-signed certs. Having to jump to the CLI to grab and sync the self-signed certs between devices seem a bit old school. And certs are updated having to clean-up and redo the process is cumbersome

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 BIG-IP core capabilities of load balancing and proxying the client connections is stellar.

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review

F5 the Netscaler Thumper

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP for balancing access to our internal servers to ensure the highest possible uptime and performance. F5 BIG-IP makes it easy to load balance Certificate secured (HTTP) sites as well as non HTTP sites and makes it easy for client access. Client Profiles and server provide make the F5 a solid product to secure your web sites.

Pros

  • Certificate Management
  • Client Access
  • Securing serves
  • Managing updates

Cons

  • Validating what Profiles are bound to could be easier to get to
  • Finding OS downloads could be more easily searchable
  • BigIP OS vulnerabilities and bug lists should be more easy to find

Likelihood to Recommend

I like the interface of the F5 BIG-IP much better than the Netscaler interface. It is much easier to navigate and configure than the Netscaler

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review

F5 BIG-IP Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BIG-IP to load balance applications in several different environments. We utilize Velos and Viprion chassis and configure them all as HA pairs. We also have an application study tool and BIG-IP. We use the F5 as the router in our main data center and also have a disaster recovery site that duplicates our production environments.

Pros

  • Service
  • Support
  • Communication

Cons

  • Easy to understand new products to market
  • Sponsored e-learnings about the product

Likelihood to Recommend

I cannot say enough good things about our account team and the service that they provide. I think that the pro services and support teams could do a better job communicating with each other internally. Sometimes some things have been lost in translation between teams

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review

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