F5 BIG-IP, Best and Safest Load Balancing Mechanism
We use F5 as a load balancer in our company, both locally and on the DMZ side, for traffic to some servers. It has been very successful in …
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What is 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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance…
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What is 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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) identity and password protection, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) web application firewall (WAF) and advanced DDoS protection.
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What is 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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) identity and password protection, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) web application firewall (WAF) and advanced DDoS protection.
What is BIG-IP's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.7.
Who uses BIG-IP?
The most common users of BIG-IP are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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April 18, 2022
F5 BIG-IP, Best and Safest Load Balancing Mechanism
- The best and most familiar aspect of the product is the Load Balancing mechanism. This feature is really successful.
- We can divide the traffic coming to the servers according to the policy we have determined and analyze this traffic easily.
- Another good feature of the product is that it has a convenient and simple user interface compared to competing products.
- I think that improvements should be made in terms of licensing and the price of the product.
July 30, 2021
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- Simple user interface
- Less on resource consumption
- Easily connect to different locations within corporate network
- Always on and automatic user auth via certiticates
- Internet speed not the best on VPN
- Cleaner user interface (modern UI components especially in Windows )
May 03, 2021
F5 BIG-IP load balancer
- Load Balancing, this is what they were designed for
- interface NAT, they can handle multiple interfaces from firewall to switches
- traffic management, we could segment traffic and watch/analyze traffic for issues
- The appliance had power supply problems, replaced 2 over the 5 years, $3000 each
- The appliance as a hardware device had no support 2 years after we bought them, moved to virtual
- Requires F5 knowledge, their terminology and way of doing things needs training
May 03, 2021
F5 BIG-IP helps provide maximum uptime
- intelligent balancing of web traffic
- SSL Proxy and offloading
- Intelligent DNS management
- Critical bugs and security issues seem to be problems lately
- Graphical reporting could be better
- Web interface is becoming outdated and clunky
May 04, 2020
Not the best, but still good
- Easy connection: you can connect to your corporate network with two clicks.
- IP restriction: F5 has a list of possible insecure IP numbers, if someone tries to connect using one of these numbers, F5 BIG-IP won't connect.
- Always on feature: Very handy feature, if you install always on, you won't need to click connect.
- The always-on client is not 100% functional. Sometimes it won't connect.
- It crashes fairly often, then the user has to restart the application and reconnect.
- The speed sometimes is not great.
February 17, 2020
f5 BIG-IP can do everything you need, and more!
- It is an extremely mature and stable platform with more available features than most users will require.
- It is extremely flexible with features such as iRules that allow customization and programming.
- You can't change objects' names or nodes' IP addresses.
- If there are pending changes there is no way to see what they are.
January 29, 2020
F5 BIG-IP - It just works!
- It just works.
- Includes options to auto connect if you use it daily or manually connect/disconnect as needed.
- Occasionally, it fails to connect and gives me very little feedback to help me correct the problem.
- The interface is simple, but a bit dated.
December 07, 2019
Great for SSLVPN
- SSLVPN
- Load balancing
- SSL offloading
- Great support
- Interface is somewhat confusing.
- Hard to find tutorials/learning.
- Cost.
August 28, 2018
The easy road to balance the load with F5
- Load balancing
- Fail over
- Traffic monitoring statistics
- Ease of maintenance of load balanced devices
- Better logging
- Easier to implement custom options without learning TCL
August 28, 2018
Good all around high end load balancing solution
- Load balancing web servers
- Advanced load balancing depending on the technical requirements of your environment
- Programmable rules for fine tuning exactly how your traffic is handled
- The user interface could be a little more user-friendly
- Load balancing
- Health checks
- SSL termination
- SNAT
- URI & Payload Rewrites
- Pricing - Aside from there being other cheaper alternatives out there I can’t really think of anything negative to say, we migrated to them about 4 years ago and we’ve been very happy since. Even considering the price I’d say it’s worth it.
March 20, 2018
F5 BIG-IP is one of the best at what they do!
- We like the fact that in F5 we can create and assign custom "Access Profiles" to any "Virtual Server" we have so different applications can use different access profiles.
- Another strength F5 BIG-IP has is its ability to run a report on the "Access Policy" to get information on all the sessions in real time.
- Setting up SSO (Single Sign-On) via the use of F5 is another great feature since configuring it is quite easily done.
- We dislike that the development/test licensing expires after about 3 months and then it needs to be renewed.
- The process of applying SSL certificates after they have expired could be improved; trying to update them can be problematic after they expire.
September 05, 2017
F5 Networks: The Champagne of Peers
- Local Traffic Manager (LTM), the base on-box functionality, is ridiculously robust and allows securing and accelerating applications VERY easily.
- Application Firewall Manager (AFM) and Application Security Manager (ASM) help protect against DDoS attacks, known and 0-day security vulnerabilities, and help meet compliance (PCI, etc) goals.
- IP Intelligence (a subscription product) allows for management/blocking of IP addresses by broad category such as disallowing any cloud services (Azure, AWS, Google Compute) from using your application.
- Ultra-premium customer support - F5's response time and commitment to resolution is top-notch.
- In my experience, the only meaningful negative to F5's product line is the price: they're selling you the Cadillac of application delivery, they know it, and the price reflects that.