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Firecracker vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Firecracker

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AFirecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker enables users to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs that may provide security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services with the goal of improving services like AWS Lambda…N/A

    VMware vSOM (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVSOM from VMware was a solution that delivered vSphere server virtualization, and also added capacity management and performance monitoring features. It is discontinued as of February 2019. Users were migrated to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vRealize Operations Standard.N/A
    Pricing
    FirecrackerVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FirecrackerVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    FirecrackerVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Firecracker and VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Feature
    Firecracker
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning6.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Management console8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration7.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security5.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    FirecrackerVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)