F5 Big-IP Review
May 05, 2025

F5 Big-IP Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP

Scope of our use case is managing traffic, so load balancing between a couple of different locations allows us to do disaster recovery testing and keep everything available.

Pros

  • It's reliable. We've had very little problems with the technology. Performance is always right on. Metrics are great. They come out of it. We'd like to do more probably with it in the future as we start to grow a lot more.

Cons

  • I think a couple of challenges. One, I mean the cost, it's not an inexpensive product, but I think it's probably parity with value, maybe a little on the pricey side of things.
  • As far as features and what we'd like to see more cloud native type experiences like where NGINX and F5 kind of come together, we're moving more of the cloud just like everybody else, and it's a little clunky right now.
  • Neutral. It's a small piece of our business. It's not substantial enough to move the needle way.
Feature set, Ease of use through workflows, dashboards, configurations, and we have the benefit of having some experts on our side that are able to properly configure everything from the beginning.
It stacks up great. I mean it does in most cases a better job. I mean there's no competition in that regard.

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

Definitely in larger environments, more mature organizations that obviously have the budget to spend and want best in class. Where it struggles is those organizations that don't have the funding and money to spend on it and need more basic functionality. So I'd say that's smaller customers we've worked with and kind of mid-market. They tend to get scared when they get the quotes. Also we've had some struggles with account team consistency. So for the sales team, just a lot of turnover and a lot of missteps on customer calls.

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