F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.3 out of 5

6 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 #12 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 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 20% of all views.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

May 2025

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Featured F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition reviews

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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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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RafaelTorres

Founder at Torres & Torres Tech

The biggest impact is in security solutions, for example, with HCM, which is recognized in the Gartner. We use BIG-IP for cloud security and branch management in the cloud. Moreover, the integration with other networks or security solutions improves the infrastructure. In Brazil, within the government environment, we use BIG-IP for load balancing and another solution as a proxy, which is called Blue Coat. We utilize BIG-IP, for example, for load balancing. The VPN model we use is called ARC. The first solution connecting with BIG-IP is very effective.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in the AWS Marketplace category stands at 0.5%, down from 1.9% 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	May 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs Kali Linux	May 19, 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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