Love it, but could use improvement
February 26, 2025

Love it, but could use improvement

Vivienn Sevcik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP

We use LTM, APM, and DNS GSLB. We primarily use it for load balancing traffic to our virtual servers and applications.

Pros

  • Its a very flexible service and meets a lot of our needs as a hardware load balancer
  • DNS GSLB has definitely helped us across our enterprise

Cons

  • Logs - from time to time we have issues and having more specific logs regarding traffic failures would help.
  • Virtual server support for multiple nodes with different operating systems in a single pool. We tend to have issues with servers being two different versions of windows using the same VIP and traffic stops. Usually have to recreate the VIP, and pool and separate the nodes in separate pools by OS versions.
F5 BIG-IP LTM could be improved. Distributed Cloud isn't offered for remote air-gapped environments, so having a better GUI and better dashboards for monitoring and API integration for remote/0n-premise would improve our environment greatly.

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

Not sure

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

No

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 BIG-IP again?

Yes

F5 BIG-IP is multifaceted and offers a lot of integration with other services. In a big enterprise environment with multiple solutions, this helps us a lot.

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