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IBM Cloud Private vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVSOM 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
    IBM Cloud PrivateVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud PrivateVMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Private and VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
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    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 IBM Cloud Private and VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    -
    Ratings
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% 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
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.6 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
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    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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    • 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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    • 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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