F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Reviews

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.

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 that we are in the process of publishing services, observing the traffic of the published services publicly, and any backend servers. We assign the virtual IPs and then check the traffic and bypass the traffic which is blocked according to the requirements of the customer.

A specific example of how I have used F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a recent troubleshooting scenario where we had to whitelist one of the API calls that was passing through the WAF of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. We went onto the physical servers, checked the log traffic, added the text file, and whitelisted the text file and applied the configuration. This is how the traffic was exempted from passing through the WAF.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers extensive documentation available for any help required and the capability for multiple licenses within a single platform.

The documentation has helped me significantly by allowing me to avoid having to install new hardware or separate appliances for WAF, BIG-IP, load balancers, and different ADCs, as I can manage everything in one big box and purchase the licenses. The ease of use of the documentation makes it straightforward for many users here, so it is easy to find use cases on the internet.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization by providing separate candidates for managing F5 traffic, leading to more effective publishing of services publicly, assigning public IP addresses, and then assigning the virtual IPs, nodes, pools, pool members, and all of that. It definitely provides a granular approach to the device.

I truly appreciate the power of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition compared to any other vendor we have used, and we have seen more use cases coming in, proving it to be better than other products.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could be improved by enhancing the GUI, as I think it should be more user-friendly.

Aside from the GUI improvements, I find that with other products, everything appears more organized. For instance, with FortiWeb, we have a dashboard where I can check the policy status with just one click, and everything is easily accessible. In F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, it tends to require navigating through menus and sub-menus.

I have been using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in different roles, specifically in banking, where I used BIG-IP LTM in one infrastructure. Currently, I am working in an environment where we are using the ASM module as a WAF.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is very stable.

When my organization needs to handle more traffic or add more applications, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition scales up easily without running into any issues, and it is very smooth.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides very good customer support. I would rate the customer support on a scale of one to ten as a perfect ten based on all of the experience I have had so far.

Positive

Before F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we were using a different solution, specifically FortiADC for Application Delivery Controller and FortiWeb for ASM.

It was relatively easy to deploy F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition initially due to my team receiving support from F5. We were there for them, and it was pretty much taken care of by the F5 support team.

I would describe the learning curve for my team adopting F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as definitely present. We learned a lot from it, especially from the provided documentation and many use cases available over the internet.

Integration with other solutions or platforms in my environment through F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has not posed any challenges. It is pretty straightforward with the appliances that we currently have.

I have seen a return on investment with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as compared to other appliances we have used. With F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we have not faced any RMAs, which has made a positive operational impact.

My advice to others looking into using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition would emphasize its scalability, the power of the appliance, and its reliability, which are big pluses for the product.

I have a positive response on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. However, I strongly feel that the GUI needs to be a bit more user-friendly, as I find FortiWeb's GUI more accessible, even though the product is not as powerful as F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. My overall rating for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is eight out of 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.

Negative

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.

Positive

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.

I have multiple use cases for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. One use case involves using it purely as a load balancer. I have multiple back-end pools that need to be exposed to the internet with the help of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. Another use case involves F5 VPN, which uses Access Policy Manager on the BIG-IP side so customers can dial into their VPN profile to access the intranet where the company operates.

Within APM, we have different use cases. Some users want to connect with Active Directory credentials, some want to connect with single sign-on authentication, and some want to connect with multi-factor authentication. For authentication, users have to provide their RADIUS token as well as their Active Directory passwords. Beyond normal VPN users, we have use cases to use APM as a portal access, which means instead of network access, we customize whatever application needs to be accessed by the end users. We can customize that application through the browser and users can access it as a portal. Additionally, I use F5 ASM, which is the advanced WAF, to mitigate vulnerabilities based on the applications we are using.

My favorite features of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are SSL offloading and iRule. SSL offloading can also be seen in other competitors such as Radware and Citrix. However, iRule is something that allows us to control the traffic very granularly. We are able to customize how we want to control the traffic. I see a big advantage in F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's iRules.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides granular control. F5 also provides a free license for one month. Even for an intern or an engineer who does not have lab resources in their environment, they can use this one-month free trial license. They can set up a lab and learn extensively. This helps us to upskill ourselves. Moreover, all solution documents are easily available on the F5 official site. It is very hard to find this information in other products such as Cloudflare or Radware. They provide only the outline of what we are looking for, but they do not give detailed information on what it does and how it does. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition provides this information for free.

A downside of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is that to capture TCP dump, in Palo Alto, we can do it within the UI itself. However, here, to capture the TCP dump, we need to log in into the CLI and be familiar with the commands. Sometimes the commands that we keep handy work, and sometimes they do not work. We have to look for the command again and prepare with the correct commands. Another issue is logs. Logs can sometimes be pretty hard to analyze to determine what causes the issue. For example, in some use cases, if we try to find out if the pool member is flapping, I would say the active pool member is also showing that it flaps for every second for some milliseconds. That is a significant downside.

I have been working with the solution for almost 10 years.

I have used Radware as an alternative. I used Radware WAF as well as Radware load balancer. Comparatively, I find F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition more effective in both the WAF as well as the LTMs.

If I were to choose one solution, I would really go for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition. I would rate this solution an 8.5 out of 10.

I am currently using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition for LTM and GTM purposes across two data centers. For load balancing between the data centers, I use GTM, and within a data center, load balancing is handled by LTM.

For a critical application, we have created an active standby setup using GTM. If something happens with DC1, traffic will automatically be transferred to DC2. For the LTM use case, we have an application such as abc.com with 50 servers behind it, and we perform load balancing between those servers.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers exceptional features, primarily SSL Offloading and redirection, which I use on most of the VIPs.

SSL Offloading helps when I need to perform content inspection, and redirection allows me to redirect traffic since we do not accept traffic on port 80 and want to direct it to port 443. In scenarios where we need to redirect to a maintenance page, redirection is invaluable. When the team requires client IPs in a layer two setup, I create an iRule, which serves as another use case for logging purposes. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition does not provide client IP by default, so I enable logging through iRule to address this need, making these truly awesome features.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has positively impacted my organization by ensuring application availability and reliability while avoiding a single point of failure through LTM and GTM. If anything goes wrong, traffic is simply redirected to a different data center. When one server goes down, LTM does not send traffic to that server, and it also helps me increase server capacity. If I need to patch and do not want to send traffic to a particular server, I can simply remove it from the pool.

Using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, specifically the LTM, has significantly reduced downtime. Previously, if any server went down, there was an outage, but now with load balancing, I can check the application status irrespective of services through health monitoring. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is very stable with no issues regarding reliability or downtime.

To improve F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, specifically LTM, I believe that when creating an LDAP server, there is only one option to add an LDAP. If there were a secondary option to add two LDAP server IPs, that would be extremely helpful.

The primary needed improvement for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is the addition of the LDAP option.

I have already evaluated F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's scalability by defining the CPU and size accordingly.

I have worked on other solutions before F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition during my time in a service-based company.

I have seen a return on investment from using F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition as it is saving our time and money. In business terms, we are not losing business, and customers are relying on and trusting our services, which is why they are paying us. We are saving money by providing availability at all times.

I do not have visibility into the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, as this part is handled by management. However, I have worked on support costs, and I believe that the support costs are reasonable compared to other vendors.

Before choosing F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we evaluated other options such as Radware. However, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is more cost-effective and better in every aspect, plus it is user-friendly.

I would definitely recommend F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition to others so they can opt for this option.