My main use case for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is for security. I use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for security by utilizing the IP Intelligence to check the reputation of IPs.
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Advanced security has protected cloud workloads and now monitors botnets and malicious IPs
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best features F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers are the campaigns and advanced WAF.
The campaign is advanced because it tracks coordinated botnets and malware.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization by making it easier to protect EC2 instances and secure instances.
What needs improvement?
I believe F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition can be improved because the 25 megabits throughput cap is small.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's scalability is pretty good, and I have no complaints about it.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is good overall.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used a different solution, Akamai script, and I switched for various reasons.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that my coworker handled it. It seemed straightforward, though expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, I evaluated other options, specifically Akamai.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is to be aware of the throughput cap and how complex it can be. I would rate this product a 9 overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Focuses on securing application access with dependable integration
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are mainly WAF. That's the main purpose.
We use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition mostly for the login functionality with our Salesforce and for security login purposes.
What is most valuable?
The features I appreciate the most about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are the WAF capabilities.
The advanced web application firewall protection and SSL offloading capabilities of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition have been utilized in my organization. These features are contributing to our application security and compliance posture.
What needs improvement?
I find it too complex to assess the impact of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's automated deployment and integration with container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, on my applications delivery speed and reliability.
I don't use F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's automated deployment and integration with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for about five to six years, possibly longer.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is stable and reliable. I have not experienced any stability or reliability issues with the solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition scales with us as we are continuously expanding the deals of the product.
The solution is performing well and keeping up with our needs as we continue to increase our usage.
How are customer service and support?
I do not use customer service and technical support directly with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. We have an integrator called Spider. They are satisfactory and whenever they encounter issues, they open a case with F5 and assist us.
I would rate the customer success and technical support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition an eight out of ten.
What was our ROI?
I have no idea about the ROI from using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. We use the technology on the technical side, not on the financial aspects.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I don't have information about the pricing, setup costs, or licensing for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.
What other advice do I have?
I do not use the load balancing and traffic management features of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.
I use other container orchestration platforms, but they are not relevant to F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.
I have utilized F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's ability to integrate with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce.
I have no idea how this integration has helped my organization manage hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
The seamless integration of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition with existing F5 technologies is not important to me as I do not use other technologies from F5.
Financially, we require F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition because we need the product. We don't have anything else that performs the same functions, so we use it without trying alternatives.
I just use and manage F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, though I didn't handle its deployment.
I would recommend F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as a solution to others.
I would rate F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition an eight out of ten overall.
F5 VPN is for secure remote access
What do you like best about the product?
The think I like best about F5 VPN is it is secure for remote access and useful for long term connections.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is slow and strukc in the middle shows connection issue error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
F5 VPN is used for secure remote access. Keeps personal data private for long term.
F5 vpn usage
What do you like best about the product?
We use F5 Vpn in my workplace to filter traffic
What do you dislike about the product?
We use high internet speeds to use the internet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There Is no problem in using f5vpn
Virtual deployment boosts efficiency and support is quick
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
It's expensive and could be cheaper. At the moment, I can't think of anything to improve.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is satisfactory based on our needs.
How are customer service and support?
They have good support. When we open tickets, they are answered quickly, and they help us solve any issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
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.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's like FortiWeb. It's expensive and could be cheaper.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is very good. I would rate the solution maybe ten out of ten.
Best web application firewall at perimeter level
What do you like best about the product?
Very good web application to protect my web application from all web application attacks including signature based attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Something facing slowness due to high cpu performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To protect my organisation from latet threats and to detect and block the malicious request targeting my organisation
provides a robust, scalable, and intelligent web application security solution
What do you like best about the product?
Threat Campaigns offer real-time intelligence on emerging threats, leveraging automated detection and mitigation
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration of multiple features like WAF, LTM, IPI, and Threat Campaigns requires a deep understanding of F5’s configuration tools and best practices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The solution helps detect and mitigate malicious bot traffic, preventing bot-driven attacks such as credential stuffing, scraping, and brute force login attempts
Offers easy-to-use integration capabilities
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution in my company to meet the virtualization needs of our customers. In the case of a payment gateway, according to the application, every VirtualBox gets segregated. Every VirtualBox will have multiple banks connected to one particular vCMP for a specific application.
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable feature is its good virtualization concepts. My company is very happy with all the basic features of the product.
What needs improvement?
On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required. If you have an instance where you have a specific configuration of CPU memory when you want to increase it, you have to parallelly create a new instance, and you have to export and import the configurations. On the go, if you could give any option to shut down VirtualBox, increase CPUs, and start it again, that would be a good option.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for more than four to five years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution.
In F5 BIG-IP i5800, if you have assigned a single CPU and memory for a virtual instance and if it increases, you can just add a CPU and memory to the existing vCMP. What you have to do is spin one more virtual instance with the two CPUs and double the memory, like eight GB memory, for example. You can't just increase the existing VirtualBox. You have to create another VirtualBox parallel, download the configurations, and import it.
My company provides one banking application to around ten customers. My company has around seven virtual instances and seven applications, each application having around 70 customers running on one F5 BIG-IP i5800. My company has created seven VirtualBox.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support was good. Whenever my company reached out to the product's support team, we got solutions to our issue. In case an issue doesn't get solved, then it gets escalated, and the product's support team provides our company with an engineer to deal with the problem.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model and the cloud model. For the on-premises version, my company deployed it on something like F5 BIG-IP i5800, and for the cloud deployment, we have installed the virtualizations on Cisco CSP kind of tools. My company ensures that VirtualBox is deployed on CSP. In both the aforementioned scenarios, we have tested the tool, after which we started to use the product in the past two to three years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product. As per the requirements of our company's customers, we opt for it if it is the only hosting option available. My company also needs to see which box from F5 matches the requirements of our customers.
What other advice do I have?
Speaking about the impact of the tool on the application delivery process, I can say that static routes are limited. For every vCMP, there are some limitations of VLAN IDs and static routes, like the number of routes that can be added. There are some limitations in the product that are likely to impact our company's applications.
In terms of performance and scalability features, according to the application limit, my company can add a single CPU per vCMP or two CPUs per vCMP, which is dependent on the load requirements that we plan. The company also needs to plan according to the application requirements. My company didn't face any issues following the aforementioned process.
My company provisions vCMPs based on the concurrent session support and SSL support criteria. Based on the data sheets, my company checks the total concurrent connections, SSL connections, and throughput limit. Even when my company plans to do segregations, we plan to do them according to the specifications described in the data sheets.
You need ten pieces of the tool for load balancing. If my company's customers' requirements only consist of a product that offers five features, then they can adopt a basic OEM tool. If some customers need more features in a product, my company recommends F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. Mostly our company's customers do accept our suggestions and choose F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition.
I recommend the product to others who plan to use it since it is a user-friendly and not-so-complex tool.
The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it.
I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Sr security Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Worked on LTM with WAF and it workes perfectly who we need to work and configure.
It is easy to configure.
It is easy to configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
If we can have a small video on this advanced WAF and scenario to use those configuration it will be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ifor application security, or know issues in the application.
Good for cloud security and branch management in the cloud and offers seamless integration
What is our primary use case?
I use it in the IT environment in Brazil for a financial bank in Latin America.
We're primarily using BIG-IP LTM across our data centers, employing it for global load balancing with GTM. This setup is crucial for our operations in Mexican, Colombia, and Brazil as well.
How has it helped my organization?
The biggest impact is in security solutions, for example, with HCM, which is recognized in the Gartner. We use BIG-IP for cloud security and branch management in the cloud.
Moreover, the integration with other networks or security solutions improves the infrastructure.
In Brazil, within the government environment, we use BIG-IP for load balancing and another solution as a proxy, which is called Blue Coat.
We utilize BIG-IP, for example, for load balancing. The VPN model we use is called ARC. The first solution connecting with BIG-IP is very effective.
What is most valuable?
The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM).
What needs improvement?
BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
Accessing and load balancing with Docker and Kubernetes is becoming more common in financial banks to scale services globally.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for many years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is 50-50 because the environment has a lot of connections, which influences stability. For example, the VM in the environment sometimes becomes unstable, particularly the connection. In such cases, we need to decrease the connections within the environment.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is easier to manage because it's possible to scale up big clusters, both in cloud-based and enterprise environments. So, it caters well to new business segments.
There are 8,000 end users in the company.
How are customer service and support?
My impression of the support team is mixed; sometimes good, sometimes bad. For example, when I raised a ticket for an IMEI issue and needed to replace BIG-IP, it failed. No problem, this process is very easy for replacing the software. So, I had a complex problem in my environment. The standard package was not satisfactory.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used a different solution, but its performance was very bad in comparison to F5 BIG-IP.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is 50% complex and 50% easy because I had to follow a lot of steps. It wasn't that simple.
In our environment, it is 90% in AWS. I use BIG-IP in the cloud, where the cloud fronts are AWS, Columbia, and Brazil, creating the infrastructure.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is standard.
The pricing is moderate, not too expensive, and not too cheap. For a small company, it might be considered very expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend using this solution.
Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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