F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Score8.9 out of 10

38 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Load Balancing Functionality: Users have praised the platform for its efficient load balancing feature, which helps balance and distribute connection traffic between multiple nodes of web servers, reducing downtime when an ISP is down. The ability to serve over 20 thousand concurrent connections on a single virtual server for handling API gateway for a mobile app was highly valued by users.

High Availability and Redundancy: Some reviewers have positively acknowledged the platform's redundancy and failover capabilities, along with its traffic shaping and high availability features. The platform's ability to handle health checks for servers and apps, load balance anything on the network, and support high availability was praised.

SSL Offloading Capability: Users appreciated the SSL offloading feature for enhancing server monitoring capabilities and simplifying the management of nodes and pools. The ease of updating SSL certificates seamlessly without user impact or downtime was noted as a beneficial feature by users.

Reviews

32 Reviews

The best solution for Load balancing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Se utiliza para balanceo de trafico de plataformas centralizadas de mision critica para la compania. Al tener una granja de servidores con El mismo aplicativo, es necesario utilizar El balanceo de trafico para las peticiones a cada uno de los servidores para distribucion de sesiones para flujos de aprovisionamiento y entrega de contenido.

It is used to balance traffic between centralized, mission-critical platforms for the company. Since a server farm hosts the same application, it is necessary to use traffic balancing for requests to each server to distribute sessions for content provisioning and delivery flows.

Pros

Diferentes tipo de balanceo segun la necesidad
Different types of balancing according to the need
Seguridad
Security
Maximizer El rendimiento de los aplicativos
Maximizer Application Performance

Cons

Automatizacion
Automation
Analisis de trafico en detalle
Detailed Traffic Analysis
Integracion con otras herramientas
Integration with other tools

Likelihood to Recommend

Para Todo lo relacionado a balanceo de Cargas F5 es la mejor opcion.

For everything related to load balancing, F5 is the best option.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager as the load balancer for servicing huge load requests

Pros

Good support from F5
Good latency
Configurable
iRule for debugging

Cons

More insights of the graphical analytic of the LTM traffic to debug latency spike

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy of deployment for load balancing API requests

Hock Zhang Peh

Software engineer in Engineering at ola krutrim (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Well, LTM is an application traffic load balancer. We use it both internally and externally for load balancing, external inbound applications and internal applications among different services, either within the same data center or within different data centers.

Pros

Sure. It does load balancing fantastically. I mean, it's an industry standard product for that. We also use it for TLS offload for applications. Those are the two main use cases for that. We do also use some of the I rules for traffic filtering. We've used that in some of the external facing services. It does a really nice job with that. It's a little bit complicated sometimes and some of the Cipher Suite stuff is interesting.

Cons

Some of the stuff you have to dive into the CLI to really use, I'm going to reach back to the previous employer for this. So I had a much greater degree of involvement with it at that point in time for, I was the crypto guy at the company and I had to design all the cipher suites that we actually implemented on our front end banking products. So in order to do that, I had to dive into it, download all the Cipher suites, figure out the actual order of operation for them, how they were selected because I wanted to design the Cipher Suites to actually provide a specific customer experience for the types of connections that our customers were likely to initiate. Getting at that information was a giant PITA. It was poorly documented at the time. I'm not sure if it's documented any better now. Every time the software changed or got upgraded, made your version, I'd have to do it all over again because the upgrades to the stack, which looked like it was based on open SSL, but it was heavily modified with a different syntax. Oh yay. That's fun too. So I had to write giant documents describing all of the ciphers that I was designing for this because it just kept changing all the time. So I didn't care for that aspect of it. Traffic management does a great job for that.

Likelihood to Recommend

I mean the only reason we changed away from it was price and it just simply had to do with the licensing that Citrix was offering on the NetScalers. They had basically an all you can eat consumption license that we were easily inside of with all of our VDI usage, whereas with F5 we had to buy the hardware and we had to license the software. Any place you need to actually do traffic balancing at scale, it's a fantastic product. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. There's just some things that hardware SSL offload and hardware load balancing just simply can't be equal that I don't know if there's a better product on the market for that.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 28, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Today we use it for our internal and external applications across the cloud and on prem. We use it to onramp into the cloud and SAP through our appliances in Equinix as well as our on prem applications in our own data centers both internally and externally.

Pros

It is great for front-ending certificates as well as optimizing traffic to the back end nodes.
It works really well at being able to manipulate traffic flows with iRules as well.

Cons

I would like to see a use case where it's easier to rotate certificates. Right now we are writing our own automation scripts to grab certificates from Entrust.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for providing security and application delivery to multiple apps across your enterprise. With HA, you always have high availability in case something happens in one of the boxes.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Great Product, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 28, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is using more than at least 50 F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in our environment. The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager are used for doing load balancing, traffic redirecting, SNI modification, reverse proxying and etc. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is doing extremely well on load balancing, SNI modification and traffic redirecting.

Pros

Load balancing
SNI modification
http traffic redirecting

Cons

Help monitoring. special on application slowness. If F5 can provide more details it will be great.

Likelihood to Recommend

In our company, we use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager on traffic redirecting based on HTTP path, HTTP query string. this function is very well helped us on APIGEE connection. At the same time load balancing is very well done. SSL encryption is also providing the good solution. especially on mutual TLS connection.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a Masterpiece for Load balancing

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 28, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for load balancing 3000 applications

Pros

IRULES

Cons

UI
more accurate documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

I think F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is well suited for 3000 legacy applications and not appropriate for poorly coded API's

Sai Deepak Kunchey

Network Engineer in Engineering at CIGNA (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) ftw

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 28, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have many essential apps that service a wide range of users, so we require the ability to be able to add and remove nodes to use with one vip. We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to help with load balancing our apps. Without it, we would be in a pretty sticky situation with not being able to spread the load.

Pros

Load balancing
SSL management for our various sites

Cons

Ai would help simplify the deployment

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) has done everything we needed to.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Happy F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager admin

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in three different production environments, each with a different customer base and requirements. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager lets us scale or update backend resources easily and without disruption to the end users.

Pros

Manage traffic
Direct traffic based on specific use cases
Provide a mechanism for back end server maintenance without disruption

Cons

Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

Any site served by more than one server is a candidate

Greg Overley

Senior Systems Programmer in Information Technology at Clark County, NV (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

17 years of experience

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to loadbalance multiple applications based of hostnames/URIs.

Pros

irules for redirection
loadbalancing
Masking ports and Ips

Cons

Likelihood to Recommend

Masking ports, loadbalancing to multiple servers in multiple Datacenters

Carol Williams

Sr F5 Engineer in Engineering at CVS Health (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

25 years of experience

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to load balance our applications across multiple servers. It is also used for SSL offload and http redirection.

Pros

Load balancing
SSL offload
http redirection

Cons

GUI updates

Likelihood to Recommend

Load balancing is flawless. URI matching for redirects works well.

David Bauter

Network Architect in Information Technology at Claritev (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Sure. It does load balancing fantastically. I mean, it's an industry standard product for that. We also use it for TLS offload for applications. Those are the two main use cases for that. We do also use some of the I rules for traffic filtering. We've used that in some of the external facing services. It does a really nice job with that. It's a little bit complicated sometimes and some of the Cipher Suite stuff is interesting.

Cons

Some of the stuff you have to dive into the CLI to really use, I'm going to reach back to the previous employer for this. So I had a much greater degree of involvement with it at that point in time for, I was the crypto guy at the company and I had to design all the cipher suites that we actually implemented on our front end banking products. So in order to do that, I had to dive into it, download all the Cipher suites, figure out the actual order of operation for them, how they were selected because I wanted to design the Cipher Suites to actually provide a specific customer experience for the types of connections that our customers were likely to initiate. Getting at that information was a giant PITA. It was poorly documented at the time. I'm not sure if it's documented any better now. Every time the software changed or got upgraded, made your version, I'd have to do it all over again because the upgrades to the stack, which looked like it was based on open SSL, but it was heavily modified with a different syntax. Oh yay. That's fun too. So I had to write giant documents describing all of the ciphers that I was designing for this because it just kept changing all the time. So I didn't care for that aspect of it. Traffic management does a great job for that.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience