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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP HANA Cloud

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.

    $0.95

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    VMware ESXi

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AA bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIncludes a one year free trial.—
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    Community Pulse
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    313 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    93 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    271 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    86 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    319 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    94 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    198 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    264 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    91 Answers
    Features
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SAP HANA Cloud and VMware ESXi
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    9.0
    51 Ratings
    11% above category average
    VMware ESXi
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance9.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking9.341 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.743 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.944 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of SAP HANA Cloud and VMware ESXi
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    VMware ESXi
    8.2
    128 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings8.0116 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings9.0128 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings8.0112 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.0116 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.0117 Ratings
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    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (362 ratings)
    9.0
    (129 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (81 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (253 ratings)
    10.0
    (55 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP HANA CloudVMware ESXi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    I think if you have a large organization, it's probably the product and the marketplace to go to. We're a large management consulting firm operating in four to seven countries. And generally speaking, I think that's the size and the scope where it scales best. I can't speak to smaller companies, but I can't see smaller companies leveraging the benefits as much as a larger organization can.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    If you're looking for the industry standard in server virtualization, I would recommend ESXi. After decades of expertise in the field, VMware continues to provide a strong product, production-ready, with an easy-to-learn interface that allows for quick management along with less costly upfront onboarding and training. Grab the free personal-use license and install in your homelab to start!
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Real-time reporting and analytics on data: because of its in-memory architecture, it is perfect for businesses that need to make quick decisions based on current information.
    • Managing workload with complex data: it can handle a vast range of data types, including relational, documental, geospatial, graph, vector, and time series data.
    • Developing and deploying intelligent data applications: it provides various tools for such applications and can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate tasks, gain insights from data, and make predictions.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Resource management. The automatic load balancing works very well to ensure no host is taxed disproportionately compared to the others.
    • Templates and cloning. It is very easy to set up a template and spin up new servers based on a specific setup. This makes server management very streamlined.
    • VM management. The vSphere interface is very easy to use and navigate. Everything is responsive and it works when you need it to. The options are also robust while also being arranged in a straightforward manner.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • Requires higher processing power, otherwise it won't fly. How ever computing costs are lower. Incase you are migrating to cloud please do not select the highest config available in that series . Upgrading it later against a reserved instance can cost you dearly with a series change
    • Lack of clarity on licensing is one major challenge
    • Unless S/4 with additional features are enabled mere migration HANA DB is not a rewarding journey. Power is in S/4
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • VMware ESXi can improve on the UI that is installed on the bare metal machine. The menus can be hard to navigate when looking for simple configuration items.
    • VMware ESXi can improve on the stability of their overall hypervisor. There have been a few times we had to reinstall due to corruption of VMware ESXi.
    • I would like to see VMware ESXi do better at adding more standard free features in their consumer version of VMware ESXi. For example, having the ability to back up virtual machines is good practice and something that would be very nice if offered in their free version.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    We would rate our likelihood of renewing at 9/10. SAP HANA Cloud has proven to be a highly reliable and scalable data platform that consistently delivers strong performance. Its seamless integration with our overall SAP landscape, combined with improved analytics and real-time data capabilities, makes it a core part of our long-term technology strategy.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    It is critical to our business, what started out as a way to do certain functions, it has now become core to ensuring our product is available to our customers and reducing our costs to operate and reduce our recovery time and provisioning servers. Their support is great and the costs to renew is reasonable.
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    Usability
    SAP
    It is very useful solution which provides you speedier data processing, real-time analytics. It helps you manage diverse data types. It also offers you excellent disaster management. It has user friendly interface which helps you navigate system and transactions easily and perform task smoothly.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    The interface is fairly intuitive for most things, and the areas that are a little less obvious usually have fantastic documentation in the online knowledgebase. In 3-4 years of managing our ESXi hosts, I think that I have only opened 4-5 support cases for things that I could not figure out myself or find answers to on the website.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    so far, we didn't get any outage
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Without the need to patch the servers with bug fixes and enhancements we whave not experienced any downtime with VMware issues. Even the bug fixes and updates do not cause of downtime as we just migrate the servers to the opposite node and update the one and then move servers back. Very simple and painless.
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    Performance
    SAP
    so far good
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We do not notice any difference between a physical and virtual server running the same workload. In fact we can scale quicker with the virtual server than we can with the physical.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    However, I am not the right person to answer this as we have another department to handle support and contact the service provider for any support required. Although i will say that they are the quick respondent and knows how to handle querry of the customers and provide quick and better support.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    I can't say enough good about VMware's support team. To an individual they take ownership of the case, provide thorough answers, and follow up regularly. On one occasion, a problem we experienced with NSX Endpoint was escalated to development for a permanent resolution after a workaround was found. In my experience, most companies would have tried to find a way to close a case like that instead of taking it all the way. Most importantly, when production is down and every second counts, they VMware teams understand that urgency and treat your issue as if it were the only one they had to deal with. You can't ask for better.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Jsut read and follow anything your storage provider may require to allow the integration of VMware with storage operations, outside of that VMware jsut works.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    I have deep knowledge of other disk based DBMSs. They are venerable technology, but the attempts to extend them to current architectures belie the fact they are built on 40 year old technology. There are some good columnar in-memory databases but they lack the completeness of capability present in the HANA platform.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    As long as you're using Nutanix AOS on Nutanix hardware and are paying their software support fees, AOS is a valid competitor to VMware and can save money due to not needing a license and having their server management system built into the base host management system. If you aren't using Nutanix hardware, however, VMWare is in most cases the best way to go. I cannot comment on HyperV, but most IT people I know either use it because they have to (most) or they like it better (not many).
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    I don't have visibility in licensing
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    VMware by Broadcom
    it has been fair and easy to understand. I know VMware is looking at wanting to change from CPU to core pricing so we will see what that looks like when it happens.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We started out with a two-server cluster and adding a third or fourth is very straightforward and simple with no issues. You just need to be aware of the size of your Vcenter Server to handle the workload, but still the resources needed is very minimal
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    Professional Services
    SAP
    We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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    VMware by Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • ROI has always been high in terms of the functionality that it offers and the security features it comes with.
    • Managing large volumes of data in real-time is not an easy task, but it does it pretty well with faster data processing.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • VMWare ESXi licensing is affordable for our business - and the licensing model is simplistic. Not like that of Microsoft with having to keep track of server licenses and CAL licenses for users.
    • VMWare ESXi also has hardware-monitoring built-in, so that further saves us money from having to be spent with another vendor.
    • As much as I hate the saying "a single pane of glass" does fit for this product. You can manage your servers, monitor hardware status, create and export backup snapshots, manage virtual NICs, connect to various storage devices. We're very happy with this product.
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