A secure hybrid-cloud ingress supporting on-prem
February 13, 2024

A secure hybrid-cloud ingress supporting on-prem

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

We utilize the F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect as a secure hybrid-cloud ingress supporting on-prem and cloud workload to our global user base. Currently we are migrating existing applications as well as creating a new "green-field" environment as a new standalone organization. We need a product that is provides security at the forefront with minimal latency.
  • Centralized Hybrid ingress for our cloud workloads
  • Centralized ingress for our existing on-prem BIG-IP devices
  • Application visibility to address end-to-end visibility into the end-user experience
  • The support model needs a quite a bit of work. I personally have experienced an outage on the platform. due to mis-configureation Although the outage was due to engineer error it took over 2 hours before we were able to speak to an engineer
  • Proxy v2 protocol to allow our organization to capture and view the source IP address
  • Visibility into application performance
  • Ease of use with configuration using JSON
The product integrates well but here are issues observing performance as there has been times it takes several minutes for connection request and response information to become available via logging within the console. This can be a real inconvenience during troubleshooting or an outage.
Easy to implement but we need to redeploy the customer edges due as they are being migrated from CentOS to RHEL.

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect again?

Yes

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is well suited for connecting hybrid workloads. The support model is a real challenge as outages can be very expensive in term of loss to the organization as well as credibility for the product

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Feature Ratings

Cloud Management Security
8
Automation and Orchestration
8
Cost Management
7
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring
8
Resource Management
8
Systems Integration
6