F5 BIG-IP is awesome!
February 26, 2025

F5 BIG-IP is awesome!

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

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP

We use LTM for both internal and external applications and rely on them for accurate and quick delivery. We also use F5 BIG-IP dns for local traffic load balancing. We use them for HA between data centers across the US. Health checks are also an important function to determine healthy servers.

Pros

  • Health checks
  • HA
  • DNS

Cons

  • Role management
  • Reliability of service up time with load balancing and health checks
UI is easy to understand.
As a load balancer F5 BIG-IP provides reliable load balancing and health checks. It’s also highly configurable via CLI and GUI, making F5 BIG-IP easy to use, set up, and configure in a city of ways. Other vendors are not close to the ease of use F5 provides.

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 well suited for ha and distribution across multiple data centers. The health checks it provides are also crucial for determining healthy servers and ensuring requests are delivered appropriately and accurately. A scenario where F5 BIG-IP may not be appropriate for is single server scenarios where load balancing isn’t necessary.

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