F5 Big-IP Review
May 05, 2025
F5 Big-IP Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP
We use BIG-IP for load balancing wherein we have pool members behind that particular VIP address and the entire traffic comes to the VIP. Then, depending on the policy, whatever we configure, the traffic gets directed to the backend pool members. Obviously it's a security reason as well. Why we use F5, we don't want to expose directly our servers to the traffic and obviously the major use case for us is for remote VPN users who remote in using F5 BIG-IP client and then they get onto the office network or corporate network. And then nowadays it's almost everyone is working remotely, so we heavily rely on BIG-IP.
Pros
- I would say each and everything that it does, it does very well. We have not run into any issues so far, so we're really happy with the product.
Cons
- Recently we have been deploying F5 web application firewall and we have started the deployment. We have already moved applications out there, but we are not yet to the point wherein I could comment any positive feedback or any negative feedback because we are still going through it, right. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't see any drawbacks or any shortcomings on the F5 product lineup.
- Obviously all positive impact.
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
We are recently not evaluating, but we have started the deployment for WAF and we're using GTM, LTM, you name it. F5, we are using all of them.
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
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