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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) includes static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure. Application proxies give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM also tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers in a group, ensuring that applications are not just always on, but also are easier to scale and manage. BIG-IP LTM delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.
BIG-IP LTM aims to improve page load times and the user experience with HTTP/2, intelligent caching, extensive connection optimization and management, and compression. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions based on application and server conditions, enables rules customization and programmability, and TCP and content offloading.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Features
- Supported: SSL Acceleration - Offloads SSL encryption from infrastructure and frees up resources to boost application performance.
- Supported: Full proxy provides inspection, management, and analytics of traffic entering and existing in the network.
- Supported: Automate layer 4-7 application services with F5's declaritive REST APIs.
- Supported: iRules scripting language—F5’s event driven traffic scripting interface—enables programmatic analysis, manipulation, and detection of all aspects of the traffic in networks
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
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F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.
NetScaler ADC, HAProxy Community Edition, and Kemp LoadMaster are common alternatives for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
The most common users of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 09, 2024
f5 - you guys rock!
- Load Balancing.
- External DNS Traffic.
- DNS Traffic Pass-through.
- Scalability
- Flexible with other products.
- Ease of use.
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
- Reduce downtime when ISP is down
- Auto switch to another ISP when one of them down
- Load balancing the connection
- Detect public IP Address for audit trail if the traffic across other network devices
March 22, 2024
F5 Big IP review
- Load balancing all ISP automatically
- Public IP address detection when across other network devices
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Load balancing
- Monitoring
- Patching of services and bugs may sometimes affect the functionality
March 22, 2024
Use case of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in a national pharmacy application project
- Fail over when a node is down
- Balance and distribute the connection traffic between 4 nodes of Web servers
- Management of the load balancing policies
- Ability to have built in observability capabilities
- AI ML LLM capability
- Smart tuning features
March 22, 2024
Our Experience withF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Serving more than 20 thousand concurrent connections on a single virtual server to handle API gateway for a mobile app
- Web-based UI can be made even simpler
March 22, 2024
F5 LTM to supporting BAU process
- Load balance
- Persistence profile
- Source NAT
- Use Raid 1 for disk configuration
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
- Good Loadbalancing functionality
- Possible scripting
- Reliable platform
- User interface
- API functionality
- Automation
- Performance monitoring
- Does web traffic management very well.
- To allow API's to work with our in house services
- To make intelligent load balancing decisions.
- Better web telemetry
- Better tools to troubleshoot private interface connections. For example ping on the private interface
- iRules implementation in case of handling some critical routing logics.
- Policies to add/remove the HTTP response headers as required by the application and security to be compliance
- Import and update SSL certificates. It is very easy to update the certificate to the profiles seamlessly without impact to the users with no downtime.
- iRule editor is one of the places need a lot of improvement.
- Confirm alert window before performing any changes to the iRule or any virtual configuration changes.
- Undo option would be a good feature to add in case any mistyping or human error happened while saving a change. Right now, once the change is made, there is no way of going back unless I copy or take a screenshot of the current configuration in order to go back. It also impacts the application until the old configuration is put back.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is great
- Application Delivery
- Load Balancing
- Security
- Programmable via iRules
- Quicker and easier upgrades without downtime
- More easily scalable
- Easier to deploy and replicate
- Load balancing
- APM provides a secure SSL VPN Solution
- Capability of running on modern hypervisors
- Time investment in creating Virtual Servers across many LTMs
- Ability to change object names after creation
- Support ability to troublshoot iRUles
February 13, 2024
Positive ROI when the app dev have weird use case the F5 BIG-IP LTM can usually make that happen
- load-balancing
- HA flip from standby to active instantly
- api documentation
- Not having a diff in the ansible modules
- Health Checks for servers and apps
- Load Balances anything on the network.
- Supports High Availability.
- Hard to update.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has provided us more opportunities to expand our capabilities
- management of nodes and pools
- management of networks Vips and vlans
- would like to see snat pools explained better
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) preserves resources in the virtualization environment
- load balance
- Route into private VLANs
- Next is fixing everything
February 13, 2024
Redundancy and failover capabilities
- Redundancy and failover capabilities
- Traffic Shaping
- High Availability
- More persistence options
- additional custom monitors to be imported
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for application scale and redundancy in a localized environment
- Pool member monitoring / health check
- Ease of deployment
- Use of parent profiles for configuration consistency
- Scalability of platform, specifically management plane
- Resource consumption
- Segmentation of VIPs to prevent impact noisy neighbor vip
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manage is a huge part of our F5 solutions in day to day bsuiness and practices
- deployment of nodes pools and vips
- troubelshooting and health checks
- open support calls quickly qkview
- less menus to locate functions like ssl cert uploads
- one management pane to view all f5 configs for inside dmz and off prem f5s
- ltm can be stream lined for future uses in deployment of configs
April 27, 2023
Easy peasy
- Load balance traffic
- Reliable connections
- Easy to manage
- Better dashboard
September 05, 2022
The best and easy to use feature rich load balancer
- Load Balancing
- SSL Offloading
- Server Monitoring
- UI is dated
- Logs are not easily to parse and read
- Upgrade process is lengthy and time-consuming