IBM Cloud Private vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
5 Ratings
22% above category average
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Private
-
Ratings
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware vSOM (discontinued)
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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Discontinued Products
Vsphere Operation Management is suitable for automating the process of bringing up an alternate data center in case of a disaster. It also is a great way for testing your readiness of disaster. You have the ability to bring up a server in a "bubble" for testing. This way you can show your admins how the failover process will work.
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Pros
IBM
  • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
  • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
  • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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Discontinued Products
  • The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration
  • VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive
  • Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process
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Cons
IBM
  • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
  • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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Discontinued Products
  • The installation of VSOM is very tedious
  • It uses an MS SQL database
  • It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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Discontinued Products
vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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Discontinued Products
  • In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial.
  • The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially.
  • Support for VSOM is terrific.
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