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Rackspace Fabric vs. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Rackspace Fabric

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/AA solution to bring cloud security, billing, operations and management together. Rackspace Fabric offers a single platform for automated multicloud management. Service includes access to Rackspace cloud technology expertise, and provides a unified interface management for all cloud resources across Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware, in a single, SaaS like operating environment.

    $500

    per month

    VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware 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
    Rackspace FabricVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Minimum Service
    $500.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Rackspace FabricVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    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
    Rackspace FabricVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Rackspace Fabric and VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Feature
    Rackspace Fabric
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    Ratings
    VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Rackspace FabricVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Rackspace FabricVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Rackspace
    I am highly likely to recommend Rackspace Cloud Monitoring to a colleague. This is assuming they have a decent background in working on cloud servers. If you don't mind digging in yourself to solve problems, then this is a great resource. If you are just learning how to set up servers on your own, then I recommend at least hiring someone to help you use the service. With that being said, Rackspace makes it easy for people you may hire to seamlessly work within your account. They get their own separate developer account.
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    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.
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    Pros
    Rackspace
    • Immediate email notifications: In case a service is down on our servers, we get immediate email notifications via rackspace cloud monitoring service. This helps us to know about the issues and we get in contact with support team to get it resolved.
    • Configuration on specific services: We can configure this monitoring on specific services. So for example if i don't want to get notified if MySQL concurrent users limit reached, then I do not need to configure this monitoring for MySQL. I can just use it whenever needed for defined services.
    • Group emails and technical contacts emails: The monitoring service can send email alerts to a number of email addresses. Primarily the ones who are added as a technical contact. It helps all people get notified about any issue.
    • Auto ticket management: Rackspace automatically creates a support ticket when a service is down and is notified by their monitoring service.
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    IBM
    • Dashboard understanding is easy.
    • The ability to handle big data.
    • Data extraction tools are very active.
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    Cons
    Rackspace
    • It would be nice if there were more templates so that beginners could easily create complex monitors
    • I seemed to stumble upon the cloud monitoring service after having Rackspace for a while
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    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Rackspace
    I also used Monitis as a monitoring service for our server. Rackspace'S monitoring sends immediate notifications while Monitis might take a couple minutes to understand if a service is down. Since Rackspace has their monitoring integrated with their support system, it helps us a lot and we don't need to call support all the time.
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    IBM
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    Return on Investment
    Rackspace
    • I have overpaid in the past for services I didn't need
    • The steepish learning curve might slow things down at first
    • I have learned a lot using Rackspace Cloud Monitoring!
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    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.
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