F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a Masterpiece for Load balancing
Updated March 19, 2025

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a Masterpiece for Load balancing

Sai Deepak Kunchey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for load balancing 3000 applications

Pros

  • IRULES

Cons

  • UI
  • more accurate documentation
  • Reduce cost
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a very good product

Do you think F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) again?

Yes

I think F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is well suited for 3000 legacy applications and not appropriate for poorly coded API's

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

20 - Net Dev ops
WAF Operations
Security Engineering
10 - Mostly it will be NOC engineers using this platform while troubleshooting and other operation engineers work on configuring the Local Traffic Manager for Proxy and other capabilities.

Architecture and Engineering teams work with the BIG IP LTM to make sure we have the F5 platform correctly placed in the right zone in the data center.
  • Load balancing
  • Global Load balancing ( DNS )
  • High Availability
  • WAF
  • Automation ( Customer facing Portals )
  • GTM for Active Active setup
  • AFM
  • APM ( OIDC Implementation )
F5 has always been one of the best products we have in the data center. We had few issues with the BUG and Code upgrades but the main use cases for F5 was always top notch. From High availability to Globally load balancing applications across multiple data centers and muti cloud environments.

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