VMware ESXi vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 VMware ESXi | Score7.6 out of 10 | N/A | A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs. | N/A |
 VMware vSOM (discontinued) | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | VSOM 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 |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 8.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 | - |
| Usability | 9.0 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 9.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 | - |
| Configurability | 10.0 | - |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | 5.1 | - |
| Ease of integration | 10.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 10.0 | - |