Industrial Edge Management¶

Industrial Edge Management acts as core infrastructure for Industrial Edge, offering tailored operating options to meet your needs.

Industrial Edge Management offerings (Operating Options)¶

Industrial Edge provides three options for operating IE Management. You can select the level of customization and independence that suits your needs: from IEM Virtual, which is easy to deploy as a virtual machine within your infrastructure, to IEM Cloud, a Siemens-managed solution that allows users to quickly run applications, to IEM Pro, a fully self-contained and highly customizable setup.

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Name	Does this offering suit you?
IEM Virtual	Are you looking for a step-by-step guide to setting up the infrastructure and running the IEM as an on-premise virtual machine? If this does suit your case, then click here for more information or here to go straight to the action.
IEM Cloud	If you want to focus on running your applications and have everything else taken care of, from maintaining the infrastructure to ensuring the IEM is always available to run your applications? If this does suit your case, then click here for more information or here to go straight to the action.
IEM Pro	Do you already have your own managed Kubernetes Cluster? If you want to adjust your setup exactly to your needs, then the IEM Pro offering is the right choice. Click here for more information or here to guide you through your setup.

Documentation Structure¶

IEM Virtual, IEM Cloud and IEM Pro share a common foundation and therefore have a similar look and feel. However, their setup and operation is different. For this reason, each offering has its own setup and operation chapter and a combined utilize chapter.

Industrial Edge Management Virtual (IEM Virtual)¶

IEM Virtual is offered with a guided installation of IEM as a virtual machine on the ESXi and VMware Workstation hypervisors. The offering is designed with the user's convenience in mind, providing a step-by-step guide for infrastructure setup and the seamless onboarding of the IEM Virtual instance.

It can serve a wide range of use cases, from initial lab testing to production scenarios.

Suitable for following Users¶

Users who seek a simplified setup process for their own infrastructure.
Users who prefer on premises data storage and operation.

Key Characteristics and Benefits¶

Fast and easy deployment of IEM on customers’ infrastructure (ESXi Server or VMWare Workstation).
Guidance for setup and onboarding (no prior experience necessary).
On Premise storage of IEM data.
No setup or maintenance of a Kubernetes Cluster required.

Purchase and First Access¶

No license purchase on the Industrial Edge Marketplace is required for IEM Virtual.
Access via the Industrial Edge Hub in section "Download Software" and download the OVA (Open Virtualization Format Archive) package for Industrial Edge Management Virtual, see IEM Virtual setup steps.

Click here for detailed information about IEM Virtual.

Industrial Edge Management Cloud (IEM Cloud)¶

IEM Cloud is offered as a fully managed service, including the Kubernetes cluster and infrastructure. The complete setup (IEM, Kubernetes cluster, environment) as well as the operation and maintenance (Releases, Patches, Service & Support, Asset Backups, ...) are provided by Siemens and within our responsibility.

Suitable for following Users¶

Users who focus primarily on the operation of valuable applications.
Users who do not want to care about the operation and maintenance of the infrastructure.

Key Characteristics and Benefits¶

Fast provisioning of IEM since no infrastructure is needed at the user (no preconditions).
No detailed IT know-how or IT capacities required.
Minimal operational effort for user due to fully managed service.
Global accessibility for different located users' sites.

Purchase and First Access¶

A license for IEM Cloud can be purchased via the Industrial Edge Marketplace.
The creation and access to the IEM Cloud instance can be done via the Industrial Edge Hub - Section IEM Instances, see IEM Cloud Setup.

Click here for detailed information about IEM Cloud.

Industrial Edge Management Pro (IEM Pro)¶

The IEM Pro offers experienced users the option of running the IEM in their own infrastructure on a self-defined Kubernetes Cluster based on their requirements and needs.

Suitable for following Users¶

IT-like users with high IT affinity and know-how who wants to manage K8s centric IEM based on own infrastructure.
Users with an existing Kubernetes cluster or with the desire to run and manage an own Kubernetes cluster.
Users who focus on managing and providing own hardware and infrastructure (Cloud or On Premise).

Key Characteristics and Benefits¶

Flexible IEM deployment on AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Kubernetes (K8s), Lightweight Kubernetes (K3s), …
Advanced functions (optimized user management, high availability, cloud readiness).
Scalability with less resource consumption and self-healing.
Enablement of user to use own security standards to run Kubernetes cluster.

Purchase and First Access¶

No license purchase on the Industrial Edge Marketplace is required for IEM Pro.
Get access via the Industrial Edge Hub - Section "Download Software" - either via installation with IE Provisioning CLI or installation directly using Helm, see Deploying IEM Pro.

Click here for detailed information about IEM Pro.

Industrial Edge Management Operating System (IEM OS) (deprecated)¶

The IEM OS is the first published version of the Edge Management System and therefore provides less functions than the other three IEM offerings. It is provided via an ISO-file and is available as local On-Premises solution that runs on a virtual machine (VM).

Suitable for following Users¶

Users with access and experience with virtual machines (e. g. VMware workstation, Oracle Virtual Box, ...).

Key Characteristics and Benefits¶

IEM OS is deployed locally on premise (ISO-based) at the customer who is fully responsible for updates, setup, etc.

Click here for detailed information about how to setup IEM OS.