F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.3 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) deliver the application services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor. Get the scalability, security, and automatability BIG-IP products are known for—all in software designed for use in single-, hybrid-, or multi-cloud architectures.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is the #13 ranked solution in top AWS Marketplace solutions. PeerSpot users give F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is most commonly compared to F5 Distributed Cloud Services: F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs F5 Distributed Cloud Services. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 18% of all views.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

June 2025

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Featured F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition reviews

Lilian Blaitt

IT Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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…

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Kodanda Ramji C.S

Manager | Engineering | Cloud Managed Services at Sify Technologies

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.

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Nikolay Dimitrov

Cyber Security Engineer at Paysafe / IBM

For public clouds like AWS in Azure, the solution can use AutoDiscovery to discover the members of the virtual machines in AWS and Azure based on their tagging mechanism. This way, when you add a new virtual machine, it will automatically be added to the Virtual Edition's post. It has a web application firewall (WAF) module. It has to get web application security. It has DoS layer 7 protection, which not many vendors have. The solution also automatically builds the thresholds for DoS attacks so that you don't have to configure the DoS manually. You enable it with basic settings, and it's using machine learning to learn the baseline and detect DoS attacks.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in the AWS Marketplace category stands at 0.6%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	AWS Marketplace	Jun 15, 2025	Download
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Comparison	F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud	Jun 15, 2025	Download

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F5 Distributed Cloud Services	5.0	0.2%	100%	2 interviews Add to research
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Valuable Features

"It's easy to use, and they have good support."
"The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it."
"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."

Room for Improvement

"It's expensive and could be cheaper."
"On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required."
"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."

Pricing

"My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product."
"The pricing is standard."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being expensive."

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