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Using F5 BIG-IP for DNS and LTM
February 13, 2024

Using F5 BIG-IP for DNS and LTM

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP

We use F5 BIG-IP for DNS and LTM. For LTM case is simple, we route all Gi traffic in our network throu LTM. The major thing that we do is strip part of traffic and send it other way for adding special features like switching DNS for client. Our solution is very comllicated and only F5 is capable of doing such thing.
  • DNS
  • iRules
  • Better support for SURE !!!!
  • GUI is already adreessed witth upcoming BIGIP Next so nothing to add
  • its unfortunately very expensive

Do you think F5 BIG-IP delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 BIG-IP live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 BIG-IP again?

Yes

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Akamai Edge DNS, Arbor Sightline
F5 BIG-IP is very well suited when you want add someting special on top of normal traffic routing using special prepared iRules iRules function is for me best, im not aware of other productcts with this tyepe of functionality. We want to switch traffic from Juniper SRX to some VE solution, and we dont know yet if this is a good idea from maintenance and support point of view.

Using F5 BIG-IP

100 - Engineering and technicians.
We are big telecomunication company and F5 products are used widely. From managers and
50 - Depends what is needed to do on this particular solution, more complicated solutions obviously need more skilled enginerr
  • Gi traffic
  • DNS
  • firewall
  • 3 layer gi traffic router with special created properitaty protocols
  • we will see
Only way to to this type of tasks

Evaluating F5 BIG-IP and Competitors

Not Sure
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Deploing new F5 is very easy.
No, im personally connected to f5

F5 BIG-IP Implementation

implementation is fine
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled - no problems with this
  • automatic backup on place located outside bigip itself

F5 BIG-IP Support

Support is BAD, unfortunately, we encoutered RUDE persons, unprofessional ones, and sometimes it was very hard to manage issue that we experienced
ProsCons
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Slow Resolution
Poor followup
Less knowledgeable
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
Yes we have premium support. We are telco, there is no telco without premium support.
Yes - YES we get an EHF :-)
two years ago ? problably it was connected with restart of tmm

Using F5 BIG-IP

everything is ok
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Feel confident using
Inconsistent
Slow to learn
Lots to learn
  • pools
  • vs
  • ZONERUNNER IS CRAP