My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is typically using F5 LTM and GTM, where LTM is for local traffic management and GTM handles different data load balancing. We have two data centers in two different locations, and through BIG-IP GTM, we perform cross-data-center load balancing. In each data center, we have to do unit management, and in total, we have over 100 units, with 60 being virtual editions.

For day-to-day tasks, whatever is operationally needed, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is definitely helping us a lot to keep applications available at all times.

The best features F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers include iRule, which is the most important feature of F5 LTM. If a feature is directly not available in F5, we can achieve that using iRule, such as logging, redirection, HTTP to HTTPS blocking, and redirection at URI level or content level. These features are exceptional and even persistence-related features help us a lot in day-to-day tasks.

I find the customization feature of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition particularly useful, along with many other features such as Health Monitor, which we can use to monitor health. If something is not allowed and the application team wants us to blacklist some IPs, we can set up policy region-based controls and achieve that. These are great features of F5.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization by simplifying management, as we previously had to manage hardware boxes. Now with the virtual edition, it is easy to use and reliable. We do not find any issues; we have been working with it for the last three to four years and not a single issue has been reported, making it a very reliable and stable product.

I do not wish for any improvements in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition; everything looks good for me. If anything is needed, we raise a ticket, and they take our feedback seriously.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for three years, and I am using F5 LTM virtual edition, which is a great product.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is indeed very stable.

The customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is good; we get immediate responses based on priority.

In this organization, from the beginning, we have been using F5 LTM, but in my previous organization, I used Radware, and I found that F5 LTM edition is a more stable product.

Since moving to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we are getting a license directly from F5 and have deployed it over our VM, resulting in cost and time savings. Earlier, if hardware was faulty, we had to replace it, but now we simply run our OS over the VM, making it a great product.

My experience with pricing and setup costs for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition was mixed, as they do not have an option for 10 gig licensing, which was costly for us. If they could also provide 5 gig and 6 gig licenses, that would be better.

Before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I did not evaluate other options, as the decision completely came from the sales team. They asked for feedback, and since the feedback was great, I am not completely aware of the commercial part, but for us, it is serving our purpose with no issues.

A specific scenario where F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helped solve a challenge for me is its ability to achieve high availability and make applications always available. It provides application-level availability, monitoring the health of applications. We even have the option to check the content and actual application status, allowing us to monitor the response code, which are great features of F5 LTM, making my work easier.

My advice to others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is that it is a reliable and stable product; they can definitely go for F5 LTM.

My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is to manage a lot of implementations across many sites. I have implemented it as LTM for local traffic management or application delivery control. I have multiple services on multiple servers and need to load balance between these servers.

After that, I have also implemented it as ASM, another module, application security manager, which acts as a WAF solution for these services.

The modules LTM and ASM help my organization day-to-day by increasing performance and balancing loads across multiple servers to help our customers. I need a very good load balancer because I have multiple services and servers providing a single service. Additionally, ASM secures these services as a WAF solution.

I have published my services to the internet to allow customers to browse our services and websites, so I need a very good WAF solution that is always updated and capable of stopping complex attacks. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides these solutions, particularly with ASM and Advanced WAF, which have a lot of features and licenses. I first deployed F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as a virtual edition alongside LTM and ASM.

In my experience, the best features F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers include stability and credential stuffing protection, along with a full proxy for layer seven, allowing it to load balance till layer seven and on any port. This versatility is very good compared to FortiWeb, which only supports HTTP and HTTPS, making F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition a superior product for load balancing and WAF solutions.

My experience with the credential stuffing protection feature has been positive. It provides updates about username and password exposure on the darknet and deep web, alerting me when credentials are found outside my organization, which is a crucial function. I feel I can rely on F5, a big vendor, for security. Additionally, the load balancer's ability to load balance till layer seven on all ports is impressive.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition positively impacts my organization by increasing performance, allowing users to access my servers, and facilitating my publishing to those servers. I enjoy secure and high-performance web services for my customers, which is my main use case to protect my websites while allowing users to access them securely. Since implementing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I have noticed fewer security incidents, improved uptime, and measurable changes in speed and customer satisfaction.

I believe that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, whether virtual or hardware, needs improvement in the logging module. There are many issues, and accessing the CLI to remove older logs to see new ones is cumbersome. I have mentioned this multiple times and opened support tickets, hoping it can be resolved in future versions.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for one year.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is stable.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's scalability is good but needs improvement.

The customer support from F5 is very professional. I would rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten.

Before F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I used FortiWeb, but I switched to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition because FortiWeb only supported load balancing for HTTP and HTTPS.

The initial setup and configuration of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are very good. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has a great GUI and concept; everyone in the IT field first learns about load balancing through F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. Most of my team holds certifications for F5 implementations.

I handle updates and patch management for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition by reaching out to support, downloading the ISO file, then uploading it to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and upgrading it using this ISO. It is a simple process.

I have seen a return on investment with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, as it secures my organization with WAF solutions against web attacks while enabling me to publish and load balance multiple servers with a single VIP.

The setup cost for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is reasonable, as my team is certified and skilled in implementations. However, the software or product itself is on the higher cost side, but I see a good return on investment for this product.

Before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I evaluated other options, specifically FortiWeb.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has integrated with my existing security tools by sending logs and flows from F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition to IBM QRadar as syslog and NetFlow.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition handles high availability and failover in my environment with two units in active standby. I create a device group where one unit is active and the other is secondary. After configuring the active unit, I push the configurations to the secondary unit, so when maintenance is needed or if the active VM goes down, the passive unit quickly becomes active, handling all traffic for my customers.

My advice for others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is to implement it in a well-structured manner; having a detailed design before implementation will be very useful. For example, creating internal and external VLANs can help in future expansions. I would rate this product a ten on a scale of one to ten.

My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is for LTM and GTM. For LTM, I use it for load balancing, and GTM is for global load balancing, which functions as intelligent DNS.

Let's suppose we have one application abc.com. We create an alias on abc.gslb.com and forward that traffic to a CNAME, which in turn forwards the traffic to the GTM. The GTM does the load balancing between the data centers. Sometimes it is active-active, and sometimes it is an active-standby setup similar to DCDR, depending on the requirement and application team requests. After that, if there is a disaster at some data center, such as power issues, the standby data center will serve that purpose. This really increases our availability and performance of the application, and we are receiving fewer complaints, almost none.

My use case is known mainly for the GTM and LTM.

The best feature of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is SSL offloading. There are different methods to deploy an application at Layer 2 and Layer 3 setup. Based on the requirement, we do that, so it is a complete ADC application delivery control, providing all the solutions that the application team needs.

A particular feature I need in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is iRule redirection. If they need SSL offloading or pass-through, or bridging, all kinds of solutions are available. Based on the requirement, we can fulfill those needs, even with GTM topology, which can be active-active or active-standby. In load balancing, there are different methods, so ratios and all can be easily configured as per the requirement. It works as a full proxy architecture, so it has the full capability to understand the request and response.

Another feature of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition that stands out to me is that it is template-based. For rapid deployment, if we need to create hundreds or thousands of VIPs at the same time, we can use iApp and scripting to do that easily. These are the major features, and for automation, we can easily manage that through F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization. Without LTM, there is a single point of failure. Since we have LTM, we are protecting our application. Previously we faced DoS attacks, and through iRule, we blocked those IPs. This iRule is a great feature, and now with our LTM, we are not exposing our actual server on the internet. Instead, we are exposing our VIP IP, providing security and scalability. We have the flexibility to add or remove servers as needed.

Regarding specific metrics or outcomes, earlier if one of the servers went down, there was a significant impact. Since F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a smart device, it can monitor the services and applications irrespective of the port, checking whether the application is available or not. It is significantly reducing downtime. If any server is causing an issue, such as if the service is running but the internal application has crashed, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition will mark that server as down and will not send traffic to it. This increases performance and availability, building trust with clients, which directly translates into revenue. If there is reputational loss, we can lose money as well for the organization. We send our solutions to other vendors and recommend F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as a great product that everyone should need.

Improvements for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition should include training for newcomers. If they are not aware, it can be beneficial for them to learn. In authentication, there is currently a single method to add a single IP. Adding a fallback IP would also help. I am not sure if that feature will be included in the upcoming version, but I am still using an older version where that feature is not available.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for approximately five years, and I have been working on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition LTM virtual editions.

My advice to others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is to definitely go with the full potential of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition LTM. It is a great product that will make your life easier and reduce costs. They provide great support, and the TAC team is there whenever needed. You can log a case and they will help.

My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is as an LTM, which means load balancer, and also as an APM, which means Access Policy Manager, to distribute traffic to endpoints and provide security features including authentications with SAML features that provide authentication using SSL certificates.

A specific example of how I use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as a load balancer is by hosting it on a virtual server with multiple services, where I can place the LTM load balancer before or after a router or firewall to distribute traffic equally among servers handling the same service.

I have only one year of experience and need to grow in my understanding of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

The best feature F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers is the APM providing authentication with certificates, ensuring that every user or tenant needs to be registered on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's APM to access the service.

The certificate matching process works in practice by making the environment secure as unknown users cannot access the service unless their certification keys match with the service certification.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has helped me complete tasks faster with fewer errors, and it makes onboarding easier for new users because its well-designed graphical user interface that freshers can easily adopt.

I believe F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could be improved, but I do not have specific improvements to share due to my limited experience with the product. There is no need for improvements in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as it already has an adequate interface to work on.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition since last year.

In my experience, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is stable, and I have not faced any downtime because our setup is active-passive.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is highly scalable; there is no downtime regarding reliability and scalability since we can set it up as an HA pair, where if the active goes down, the passive takes over seamlessly.

The customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is very good; they quickly resolve any difficulties I face, and I appreciate their support.

My advice for others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is that it handles traffic well and provides centralized management for certificates, efficiently managing L4 and Layer 7 load distribution and reducing CPU load on backend servers. I would rate this product 9.5 out of 10.

Currently, we are evaluating F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition load balancer through a 30-day trial, and we are also supporting another project where our client is using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

Our main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is that we have a DMZ zone for internal use where multiple servers or services such as HTTP or Telnet are available, and we use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for load balancing, ensuring reachability and load balancing for better services.

In the future, if any project comes along, we can suggest F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition because we have multiple services such as HTTP and Telnet, along with our internal servers, which can be helpful for us. We plan to create multiple virtual IPs and create pools for customer separation to improve services.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has excellent features including easy configuration, allowing us to create separation for each client, and bridging mode for SSL client and SSL server, which is helpful for bridging and separation for the clients.

The bridging mode in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helps us and our clients because the client communicates with the SSL client, which only connects to the server's virtual IP without knowing which server provides the services, ensuring security. The internal F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition load balancer connects to server services, functioning as an encrypt and decrypt system, ensuring separation, security features, and reachability from client to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helps us handle security and high availability in the best way since our client is using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, enhancing services with good customer feedback regarding service reachability and load balancing method and utilization, and we support this 24/7, so F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides these benefits to us.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition positively impacts our organization by improving user experience, performance, and security, which is very helpful for us.

There is nothing significantly to improve for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, but we need to configure the load balancer according to our requirements because by default, there is nothing. We can configure it according to our needs, such as nodes, pools, pool members, SSL, and services, allowing us to create profiles, templates, and iRules as needed, which are beneficial for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

For improvements, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could build in some enhanced security features, as multiple organizations, including ours, are using SD-WAN technology, and having that inbuilt with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition would provide a single point for multiple functionalities simultaneously.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is limited because we are going through the trial, so we do not know much about that yet. We will gain more knowledge and experience with it as we proceed through the evaluation.

Before trying F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we were using proxy servers, but many companies are now switching to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition because it offers a better solution than the proxy server.

We are still in the trial phase, so we have not seen a return on investment yet.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

We are using the round-robin method with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, which ensures a health check of the service servers and services. If any server is more utilized, another server will respond simultaneously, distributing the server services equally, and clients are happy even during interruptions, which is a beneficial feature.

I rate F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition a 10 out of 10 because it is very user-friendly, has easy configuration, ensures reachability 24/7, and provides security along with easy configuration, backup process, and ease of doing everything according to our requirements.

I suggest others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition to proceed with it for its good services, and after our trial version or if needed, we will take the trial again to explore further. In the future, for any projects or requirements, we can suggest it as we gain more knowledge about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, which will be helpful for recommendations.

My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is to facilitate site-to-user communication and to enable access to site services. In my environment, we have an internal DMZ zone, which includes an HTTP server and Telnet services. When an external remote user wants to connect with our services, we need to use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for the round-robin method to ensure that the services have 24/7 reachability without any interruption.

The best features that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers for me include many aspects of the load balancer, with iRules being one of the best features. Additionally, for SSL, we can utilize it for SSL clients or SSL users, and we can perform specific bridging, which is also a good feature.

iRules have helped me by providing a full proxy system for SSL. If we configure client-side SSL and server-side SSL, there will be separate communications, but it will function as a full proxy, which is a beneficial aspect for us.

I can smartly manage F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition to build everything according to our requirements, as there is nothing set by default, but we can add things. We can perform many tasks with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, including reachability and client separation, server health monitoring, and utilizing pre-templates that apply on behalf of iRules. We can modify or change our configurations as needed, and the load balancer method can be applied dynamically and statically. There are multiple functions we can utilize with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, which is very advantageous for us.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization mainly through our services' reachability for 24/7 operation without interruption, as well as load balancing, allowing us to manage our traffic for multiple servers using the same load balancer.

I hope future updates could include advanced routing and firewall concepts in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, especially since SD-WAN technology exists; integrating it could significantly enhance the services. I believe integrating SD-WAN technology would be a beneficial improvement.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for one year.

I have noticed improvements in performance, uptime, and management since using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. The round-robin method and health monitoring are beneficial, as performance is very good with the load being equally distributed to all servers. This results in fast movement, providing a service with quick access and no delays. It effectively monitors server health, ensuring if any servers go down, it promptly addresses that issue.

In my experience, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is reliable.

It can handle growth easily.

The customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has been satisfactory. While getting a trial license, I communicated with the customer support team, and they responded in a timely manner. However, there was a wait time of two or three days, which could be improved.

Previously, I used an old proxy server method, and F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has taken over for the proxy.

As of now, I have not seen a return on investment during my trial period.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

I would advise others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition that it is the best instrument for load balancing. If you desire scalability for your network and enhanced speed for accessing servers, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides a great user experience, yielding positive responses and access systems for services that will keep your customers satisfied. My experience indicates that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is doing a great job. I give this product a rating of 10.

My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is hosting a lot of SaaS-based applications. We host applications for multiple Fortune 500 companies, so there are many customers using the SaaS-based service. We apply application customization on every virtual server using iRules and compression. We utilize a lot of features on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

A specific example of how I'm using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for one of our SaaS-based applications involves a lot of customization needed for a certain application. This includes rewriting the HTTP header and recording the source IP addresses, the original source IP address of the user. We log the traffic and implement many other settings to improve the application's performance. We have implemented many things on our F5 load balancer.

I also host our DNS on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. We have a lot of wide IPs configured and use it for many things including DPO or Active Directory, DNS. There are many things that we utilize F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for.

The best features that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers are mainly the Local Traffic Manager and DNS and advanced WAF feature, such as ASM. It offers us many features including L4-L7 load balancing, SSL offloading, health monitoring, persistence, traffic steering, and iRules programmability. On the DNS side, it helps us with global load balancing, DNS security, geographical-based routing, and resilience.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization as it is a very stable device. We have not experienced any kind of issues with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition most of the time. F5 support has been great. Whenever we run into any kind of issues or any assistance is needed, we can easily reach out to F5 support and they are able to help us very promptly. It created more resilient applications for our infrastructure. It was a good offering that we could build up using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition load balancers.

I find myself relying on LTM, specifically virtual servers for hosting an application and load balancing across multiple backend servers. This is the major feature that we use. In case of high utilization of the application, or if there is huge traffic, we can add more servers and evenly distribute traffic, relying on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition performance.

I think we should have some features for getting more metrics. If we can get more metrics in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition GUI, I mean you have a BIG-IQ product, but if we can get some metrics and log metrics that show our utilization, performance, application response times in a more clear and more precise way, that would be great if that could be incorporated.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in our company for approximately five to six years.

I have rarely seen any kind of outages with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. The performance increased significantly and the response times of the application improved. We could offer a lot of customization based upon the application to our customers. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has really helped in faster response times. Using its bundled features, we could utilize it for many things including security. We do not need to worry about the security for utilizing the application firewall on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is very stable.

Its scalability is that it can be scaled up and down easily. We just need to increase our vCPUs and we can easily increase the license-based limits or the VM cloud platform limits. We can scale it up both vertically and horizontally. It is very effective.

The customer support has been very good. Whenever we run into any kind of issues or when any assistance is needed to dig deep into the logs, the customer support has been very helpful.

F5 support was excellent whenever it was needed during issues or when we needed assistance.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition from the very beginning and have not used any other solution.

I was brought into an environment where F5 BIG-IP was already deployed on physical infrastructure. As we progressed our journey towards the cloud, we made a move to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, which was a clear choice from the very start. We never explored other options.

While I cannot discuss return on investment because I am not involved in that part of the business, I can discuss the ease of deployment and ease of operations. It is considerably easy to learn and get documentation on how to do things on the internet and F5 site. The knowledge available and free knowledge across the internet is very good. It is very easy to learn technologies if you are trying to explore more on the features. Support is very well available.

We use the best license, wherein we are using a subscription-based licensing for a one to two-year subscription, which can be scalable up and down during the entire term. In respect to the features that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers, the licensing, the cost and everything seem appropriate and at par with the competition.

My advice is that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a very stable product. We need to understand that we need to choose the appropriate licensing before sizing the VM and how we design our application and use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. It is designed to scale out and scale up. We need to select an appropriate solution based upon our requirement. We need to evaluate it properly before we go for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition load balancers. I would rate this product a ten out of ten.

In my company, we use NGINX. I don't work with NGINX. For us, it is better to have the virtual solution because we have more virtual VJPs on fewer machines. This is the reason we are using it today.

It's easy to use, and they have good support. When we open tickets, they are answered quickly, and they help us solve any issues. When our environment starts to grow, it is better to have the virtual solution because we have more virtual VJPs on fewer machines.

It's expensive and could be cheaper. At the moment, I can't think of anything to improve.

It's very stable. We use a cluster in our environment. We use the cluster more when we need to update some of our machines to ensure no downtime. It is very stable.

The scalability is satisfactory based on our needs.

They have good support. When we open tickets, they are answered quickly, and they help us solve any issues.

One day is enough to set up. Today, we deploy a machine by ourselves. When we started to implement the environment, we had support from F5. Today, for example, if it's necessary to deploy a new machine, I can do this by myself.

It's like FortiWeb. It's expensive and could be cheaper.

The solution is very good. I would rate the solution maybe ten out of ten.