F5 BIG-IP and LTM success
February 13, 2024

F5 BIG-IP and LTM success

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP

We use F5 BIG-IP in our environments to increase the availability, performance, and security of several of our applications. We have been building applications into the LTM to allow for any downtime related activities for our application servers. The use cases for our applications include being able to take servers down for maintenance without needing additional outage windows, being able to understand additional performance metrics of our applications, and we also build tetration data from our security teams that allow for us to make intelligent business decisions. BIG-IP has been the best choice for our solutions because of the focus and commitment that F5 has to its reputation as the leader in load balancing products.
  • Application Availability
  • Application Performance
  • Application Security
  • Support response times
  • Functionality differences between CLI and GUI
  • More clear troubleshooting pathways
  • These metrics are not available due to the process and cycles within our organization
F5 BIG-IP Vs Netscaler Traffic Manager by Citrix I would say there is no comparison. Netscaler was difficult to use and no one easily understood the configurations. It led to many times where our engineers would need to reverse engineer the configuration before they could make simple or small changes to the load balancer configuration.

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

Yes

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 is best suited for load balancing and security. Mainly for availability, performance, and security of our applications. The way BIG-IP LTM has pools nodes and VIPs as building blocks of their load balancing architecture is easy to understand and allows for any kind of custom layer 7 metrics you can think of. No matter how experienced you are within Network Engineering, BIG-IP will have a solution to the big three things it does well. Any other type of solution could not be a solution that BIG-IP is suited to solve, but F5 has other solution pathways for those things.