Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) vs. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
KVM	Score 5.0 out of 10	N/A	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.	N/A
VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud brings together VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX into a natively-integrated stack of virtual compute, virtual storage, and virtual networking built upon IBM Bluemix bare metal servers.	N/A

Pricing

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
KVM	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Top Pros	Pro Automation tools Pro Licensing cost Pro Multiple versions	Pro Cloud provider Pro Pay per use Pro Data extraction
Top Cons	Minus Limited support Minus Setting it up Minus Hard to set	Minus Create reports Minus Financial transactions Minus Red hat

Features

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) 9.2 5 Ratings 10% above category average	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud 9.0 1 Ratings 7% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.04 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Management console	9.03 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.73 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	9.04 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.53 Ratings	9.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Small Businesses	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.4 out of 10	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (5 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Red Hat KVM is the best solution in the case you need to test and turn up any virtual environment with limited vCPU/RAM resources. The obvious area of its use is a network environment when we want to avoid being tied to one type of hardware/vendor and being able to swap from one instance to another with no downtimes. The use of a vSwitch (that supports VLAN tagging) is a significant bonus for network engineers that some other hypervisors do not provide. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Multiple capabilities that VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud provides are excellent and very much involved in secure data migration and management, easy to monitor server performance and the virtual capability is on top and the data analytics using the platform are provided in real-time and the reports are the most useful, especially on the critical situations within the business development. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Red Hat KVM is really good at providing fast and reliable virtualization for Linux guests Since KVM is a kernel module, every VM is a Linux process which can be managed by Linux system tools KVM integrates very well with the management framework libvirt, which is why KVM can be integrated in automation tools as well Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	IBM Dashboard understanding is easy. The ability to handle big data. Data extraction tools are very active. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Red Hat Complex networking GPU processing is not fully supported It's hard to set up without support tools Incentivized Stenio Pereira Filho IT Group manager Read full review	IBM Only setting the advanced functionalities. The basic knowledge can not full manipulate the platform. To create reports for big data is sometime very turf. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine is an open-source and free solution, compared to Virtualbox which is a product from Oracle. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Red Hat KVM just works and gets out of the way KVM is working great with other open-source technologies like QEMU and libvirt Incentivized RM Robert Munteanu Software Engineer Read full review	IBM Live virtual capability are excellent. Great tool for the huge volume of data management and migration. Data accessibility is faster and the analytical capability is amazing. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
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