Forum Discussion
blwavg_10621
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusEnterprise Manager VS Big IQ
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 over...
Hi
Yes, EM will be superseded by BigIQ. There are separate licensed modules (capability/functionality) in BigIQ.
So the BigIQ DEVICE is the feature set/module you need to have some device management.
You cannot upgrade from EM to BigIQ. EM was sold on hardware, and then later as a virtual machine. BigIQ is primarily virtual appliances.
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
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.
BigIq is in the process of being improved and the release cycles are decoupled from the BigIp release cycles -- ie more frequent updates.