Enterprise Manager VS Big IQ

Question

I used to be under the assumption that BigIQ was replacing Enterprise Manager, but I am not sure that is the case. What is the the real differences between the products because they seem to have overlapping feature sets and I am not sure why one customer would pick one appliance over the other. I see that there are different options (or maybe modules) for BigIQ, but I have no idea what its purpose is in relation the EM.

boneyard · Answer

just my personal feeling, EM is going away, BIGIQ is the future, but currently it is still a limited product.

blwavg_10621 · Answer

Okay, so they are trying to port the features of EM into BigIQ it is just going to take some time, essentially. That was my original thought. When i read this "*If you're primarily interested in the device and license management features of Enterprise Manager, BIG-IQ Device might have what you’re looking for.". I started to wonder if they were going to continue keeping the products separate.

Source: https://f5.com/products/modules/enterprise-manager

gbbaus_104974 · Answer

Hi&nbsp;
Yes, EM will be superseded by BigIQ.
There are separate licensed modules (capability/functionality) in BigIQ.&nbsp;
So the BigIQ DEVICE is the feature set/module you need to have some device management.&nbsp;
You cannot upgrade from EM to BigIQ. EM was sold on hardware, and then later as a virtual machine. BigIQ is primarily virtual appliances.&nbsp;
BiGIQ supports REST and iControl, where EM supports iControl only. REST will be the 'go forwartd' API engine also, and is available in v11.4 and v11.5&nbsp;
If I was you ask your SE/Sales guys for  an eval copy and have a look. It there are things in EM that you "have to have" that are not in BigIQ yet, then get the F5 sales guys to put in requests for those features. &nbsp;
BigIq is in the process of being improved and the release cycles are decoupled from the BigIp release cycles -- ie more frequent updates.&nbsp;

alex_s_183974 · Answer

Can someone point me to a document/wiki for a feature-set comparison between the two products - BigIQ and Enterprise Manager? As BigIQ develops, it would be great to see which product covers a certain feature. There's some hesitation to upgrade to BigIQ because of perceived lack of feature parity with Enterprise Manager.

charles_lamb_23 · Answer

For some reason Enterprise Manager (Virtual Edition 3.1.1) doesn't seem able to manage F5 BIG IP version 12.0.0&nbsp;
What am I missing here?&nbsp;

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