IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions vs. VMware Cloud on AWS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Score 8.0 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
$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
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Considered Both Products
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
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 …
Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
They are both comparable services and we had done some research into both.
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.
VMware Cloud on AWS

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Features
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
8.1
25 Ratings
1% above category average
VMware Cloud on AWS
-
Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning6.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Management console8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration8.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsVMware Cloud on AWS
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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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Amazon AWS
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Pros
IBM
  • Adaptable valuing relying upon size and scale.
  • The presentation is first rate. Our on-prem climate was continually experiencing slack and general languor. With IBM running everything, it's much smoother.
  • Start another group as little as one ESXi worker or scale a current bunch.
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Amazon AWS
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Cons
IBM
  • 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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Amazon AWS
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Usability
IBM
It is easy to use and setting it up is simple. The only con is that the pricing is a little bit high as well as documentation is a little low; so we had to do some personal learning to be able to fully utilize the product, or hop on the phone with someone.
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Amazon AWS
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Support Rating
IBM
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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Amazon AWS
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions stacks up against them, we fully agree there are so many features in IBM cloud for VMware Solutions that make it unique and different. The system provides us hypervisor security level and the system even has live backup and storage capacity of data. This system provides us with accuracy that helps us to reduce errors and vulnerability.
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • It has a positive impact on the cost required to maintain our vSphere environment by allowing us to get rid of our vsphere hardware and not worry about maintenance either.
  • There have been very few negatives, but one would definitely be the open-ended cost associated with cloud products in general.
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Amazon AWS
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