F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) An Indeed Need In The Apps World
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) An Indeed Need In The Apps World
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is used to load balance 100s of applications in both On-premise and Cloud in our organization. The applications are always deployed in more than 1 servers to maintain high availability in which case the F5 helps a lot of keep Active-Active application environment. There are some applications use priority base load balancing which is a key part of business need.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
- F5 is widely used for every applications that are deployed and it is efficiently used in our organization.
- In several troubleshooting, F5 and its monitoring and logging helped to investigate the issue and figure out the root cause in a quick manner.
- When some functionalities are deprecated, the existing iRules would get impacted during the upgrade, which requires good amount of time to figure out the replacement. Sometimes there is a situation to fall back.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) again?
Yes
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