IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions vs. VMware Cloud on AWS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Score 7.0 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
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
VMware 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
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0.25 IOPs 1 GB
Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
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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
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
VMware Cloud on AWS
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Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning5.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Management console8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
VMware Cloud Foundation for Disaster Recovery environment, when the client needs to deploy a pay-as-you-go service or if they need to migrate SAP workloads, you can use VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic and VPC. We are the unique SAP-Certified VMware cloud service provider.
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Pros
  • Ease of use - we don't want to spend extra hours trying to figure out a problem.
  • Easy Setup - onboarding was simple and quick.
  • Great documentation - Most of the answers to our questions are very easily accessible without additional help.
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Cons
  • Support is horrible and or non-existent
  • Documentation is out of date and incorrect for the most part
  • IBM employees and salespeople are not aware of features or offerings
  • Does not integrate the Zerto, only Veeam and has limited options for data migration
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Usability
Everything is very clearly laid out. Being familiar with vSphere already, it was a quick transition over to the IBM environment. This allowed us to spend less time on the implementation phase and move quickly to actually utilizing the system on a day to day basis. Also, the performance is very good. No lagginess to the website like our previous on-prem environment.
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Support Rating
Overall, just a great experience here. No one in my opinion gets a perfect 10/10 rating (no one is ever perfect), so 9/10 is probably as good as it gets! From initial planning to post implementation support, the IBM Cloud and professional services has been there for my group as much as we have needed them. Great job!
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Implementation Rating
IBM professional services helped us plan and implement the project with great success. They guided the project from planning, scoping, pre-implementation, testing, roll-out, then production and post-production support. We were very impressed with their knowledge of VMware and really appreciated their desire to make our project a success. I would highly recommend them!
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Alternatives Considered
We chose VMware over Azure App Service because of the way that it was at that point natural and still offered similar cloud capacities that Azure would have acquired us. This permitted us to continue to utilize a similar interface and not need to relearn everything beginning to end with another item.
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Return on Investment
  • One of our business objectives was to ensure as close to 100% uptime of our servers and applications. This solution has helped us achieve that goal.
  • Another goal was to try and minimize our datacenter footprint. This was achieved by using the product.
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