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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions vs. VMware Cloud on AWS

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data centers and access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions from an array of ecosystem partners. To address varying workload needs, IBM Cloud…

    $0

    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)

    VMware Cloud on AWS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware Cloud on AWS provides the VMware SDDC software stack to the highly scalable AWS Cloud, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server. Each SDDC consists of 3 to 16 hosts, each with 36 cores, 512 GiB of memory, and 15.2TB of raw NVMe storage. The vendor states users can deploy a fully configured VMware SDDC Cluster in under a few hours, and scale host capacity up and down in minutes.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
    Editions & Modules
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Block Storage 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.01
    Per vCPU (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $12.80
    Microsoft license (monthly) per 1 vCPU²
    Add-on
    $13
    Veeam backup license
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Compared to AWS, I found the IBM Cloud for VMware solutions service very easy to use since the administration interface is intuitive, well distributed and easy to use, also in the way of performing configurations and deployments it has fewer steps than on AWS, the security …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    They are both comparable services and we had done some research into both.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware was a cheaper alternative to AWS and provided best-in-class tools such as security, backup, recovery/DR. The interface was easy to navigate and the support skillset is high.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and VMware Cloud on AWS
    Feature
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    7.7
    24 Ratings
    VMware Cloud on AWS
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    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning5.324 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup8.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (24 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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