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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Starting at $0 IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
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What is IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions?

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data…

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How IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Differs From Its Competitors

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

The Vmware stack on the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is much faster to deploy and run and with respect to the Disaster recovery we get a robust Disaster recovery facility , Backup and security compliance is also being taken care partially by the IBM cloud and Partially by the VMware Vendor and …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions experts had to be engaged during the SOlution deployment and they guided and helped in a much professional manner. IBM consultants knowledge on IBM products are much deeper and that helps to speed up the solution deployment phase and we can get Industry best …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

We received great support from the IBM team of experts when performing complex multiple Cloud data migration with advanced Cloud and data settings. Great experience with a great team of experts and we enjoyed working with them, always dedicated to making us succeed and attain our objectives. …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

Since this was a POC, it was nice to see the expansion of options on IBM Cloud and the potential in decreasing on-prem resource use and costs and its limitations. It was evident that there is a robust consideration for disaster recovery and the security of data.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

The team is very helpful and reliable on the full implementation of the solution within any business. Through the community guidance and technical help provided is now easy to manage all the organization data and multiple services and also import multiple big data from other integrated tools very …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

It was pretty easy. IBM was already very helpful to the client as they were using multiple P Series setups, the migration was easy and simple. The teams gathered all the requirements and guided us to maintain backup and procedures were explained in well-defined KBs. They have teams who are already …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

Moving VMware stack to the IBM Cloud has made our IT decisions easier, efficient and it also has saved us time and money. We have 24x7 support and don't have the need for 24x7 on site IT support. Costs have been stable and decreased especially since we were looking to upgrade aging hardware[.]
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

IBM experts have been great. We used them during transition and implementation. Although the support process is sometimes complicated, once you get an expert on line, they are great and knowledgeable about their product. Overall we have been pleased.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

The goal of using IBM Cloud for VMware was to burst existing workloads into the cloud on-demand in order to meet customer demand before physical hardware could be deployed in-country. This solution allowed us to maintain legacy apps and helped us shift development costs away from writing new apps …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

Engaging with support was a breeze. After opening a ticket, an engineer was assigned within minutes and provided good troubleshooting actions to take before jumping onto a screen share session. The engineer that I worked with had a good background in virtualization and was able to address my issue …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

The overall impact in moving our current VMware stack to the IBM Cloud has been a positive one. Our current data centers are almost at capacity, so moving to the IBM Cloud has allowed us to minimize the need for new data centers. We also feel our data is safe and secure within the IBM Cloud, and …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

We have felt that the IBM experts have been very helpful with our migration. The consultants we have worked with have been nothing but excellent, and we have felt that they have given us good advice in our migration effort. We would definitely recommend the IBM consultants to anyone looking to …
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Implementation Insights

Our implementation of IBM Cloud for VMware went very smoothly. We worked with our designated IBM technical support person and things went as expected. There were a few bumps along the road, but that was to be expected. My group is a pilot project for a larger team, so we just migrated items in …
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Examples of Exceptional Support

I'd be glad to provide a good example! We were having a problem with initially porting our application over to the IBM Cloud. We followed the provided, detailed instructions, but we could never just get it to work. We spend a few days troubleshooting this problem, but could never get it to work …
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IBM Cloud Support Resource Usage

Central Documentation and Learning Hub IBM Cloud Docs Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products Access to IBM and Developer communities through Stack Overflow or GitHub
These resources have been a great help with resolving issues we had with the implementation and post-implementation …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions covers all aspects of IT needs for the customers that we work with. For the customers looking to get rid of a second site as a backup (which is more expensive and time-consuming than a data recovery backup solution), it's easy to use and a better way to store …
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

IBM has been great for service and support. From the beginning, they helped our team learn the software so that we can help educate our clients on it. We want to make sure our clients are as confident as they can be in their backup storage, and IBM has helped equip us to do that.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

The training within the initial conversations and onboarding helped prepare our team to fully leverage the product in our day-to-day. Because of this, we haven't had to have lots of follow up calls for support or to fix an issue - our team is able to figure everything out and work quickly.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Cloud Adoption

IBM Cloud for VMware solutions has been great for saving data center costs. We can keep backup data off of these servers and invest in a cloud solution that has been reliable and fast. We haven't run into any problems with scalability and the software has been perfect for data recovery.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Experts

IBM has been helpful throughout the adoption and customer process. They make VMware solutions easy to understand and even easier to use which gives our team the ability to fully use the product. Everyone at the IBM team has been great to work with and quickly helped out with any issues we have run …
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Popular Features

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  • Live virtual machine backup (23)
    9.0
    90%
  • Hypervisor-level security (24)
    8.3
    83%
  • Management console (24)
    8.3
    83%
  • Virtual machine automated provisioning (24)
    6.1
    61%

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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Jesus Mora Luna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jesus Mora Luna
System Administrator
Fourth Kind Solutions S De RL De CV (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
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Pricing

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Add-on

$0

Cloud
IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)

On-demand

$0

Cloud
0.25 IOPs 1 GB

Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)

$0

Cloud
0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

8
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions?

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data centers and access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions from an array of ecosystem partners.

To address varying workload needs, IBM Cloud offers both client-managed and IBM-managed VMware solutions. The client-managed solution, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated, includes VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter options in a monthly subscription model on a single-tenant infrastructure. Both run on bare metal servers enabling secure, single-tenant deployments. Additionally, the same root level hypervisor access can be retained as with an on-premises cloud. These models improve compatibility and increase cloud agility.

The IBM-managed solution, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared, leverages VMware vCloud Director in an hourly or monthly consumption model on a multi-tenant infrastructure. This self-service solution provides a way to start migrating virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud in a matter of minutes. IBM Cloud manages the hypervisor, so users don’t have to worry about managing, patching or updates. The vendor describes this model as flexible and cost-effective for scalability.


IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Features

Server Virtualization Features

  • Supported: Virtual machine automated provisioning
  • Supported: Management console
  • Supported: Live virtual machine backup
  • Supported: Live virtual machine migration
  • Supported: Hypervisor-level security

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Screenshots

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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Videos

How IBM provides a secure and enterprise grade cloud that enables the migration and modernization of VM workloads to the cloud.
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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Integrations

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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide

Frequently Asked Questions

VMware Cloud on AWS, Rackspace Managed Private Cloud, and OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud are common alternatives for IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.

Reviewers rate Live virtual machine backup highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)20%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)75%
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 19, 2024

VDI solution on IBM Cloud

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions helped to deploy the Vmware Virtual desktop infrastructure and its resources on the ibm Cloud and which helped to deliver the VDI infrastructure across the globe to all users of the organization and the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is much reliable and the performance is much better compared to other cloud solutions for VMware deployment.
March 18, 2024

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, the best cloud option for any workload

Jesus Mora Luna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jesus Mora Luna
System Administrator
Fourth Kind Solutions S De RL De CV (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The appropriate scenarios where we would use the products areMigrate development and testing environments for new applications so that they can be accessed from anywhere.Deployment of the recovery environment in case of any contingency when the productive environment failsImplementation of containers and kubernetes for high-demand applications that require increasing or reducing resource utilization
November 30, 2023

We thought we had the best solution with Veeam, then came IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions...

Amir Shokoohi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Amir Shokoohi
IT director
Mcgregor and company (Accounting, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This is a very well designed application to help creating reliable and rather fast nightly backups. These backups can be made into incremental and/or a full one. We do nightly incremental and weekly full ones. The ability to be able to replicate a server to make sure any potential disasters are avoided by running a mock test is invaluable and priceless.
April 05, 2022

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions-The best solution for your business problems

MK
Mushtaqu Khan
Regional Business Manager
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd (Pharmaceuticals, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is well suited for our organization having features of live backup and restoring the data that help us from external environments. IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is scalable which also helps to extend the business with limited resources and limited cost.
April 01, 2022

Live virtual machines migration and backup, a highly-flexible and cost-effective product for scalability

Stacey Arjen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stacey Arjen
Technology Product Manager
Booking.com (Internet, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Intuitive product that is easy to use and user-friendly interface that gives the user the ability to navigate through easily and fast on implementation. It helps to leverage the existing On-Premises infrastructures with Clouds capabilities and with effective live virtual machine migration and backup and also maintains the same hypervisor-security level.
March 28, 2022

overview of IBM Cloud for VMware

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is well suited is good for the deployment and migration of workloads to the cloud in a quick manner and flexibility in access to cloud resources. However, it needs to be tested out first if this is the right avenue for your use case.
March 27, 2022

Intuitive Cloud Data Moving Solution and Easy to Manage Data Quality.

Hannah Caleb | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hannah Caleb
Quality Engineer
Iress (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The software was very easy to implement during the initial involvement and the features are accessible with different unique capabilities. The Cloud performance of the tool is excellent and the tool allows the easy moving of data and also the Automation of multiple services. The IBM Cloud for VMware data management environment is secure and effective.
November 23, 2021

Best Realtime and usage review for IBM Cloud for VMWARE Solutions

Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lavish Garg
Cyber Security and Blockchain Blogger
Witquake (E-Learning, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions would be a good fit for a medium to a large company looking to outsource their current in-house VMware products. The IBM solution would allow them to outsource their current infrastructure so that the company could then concentrate on their core business, whatever that may be. A smaller company with a smaller VMware footprint would probably not be a good fit here. It's a pretty complex process to get things started, so it might not be worth it for a smaller company.
September 28, 2021

A perfect product for existing IBM users

Ayush Dhawan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ayush Dhawan
Lead Technical Consultant
IBM (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a quick IBM product to migrate without thinking of risk of regular AWS outages, this is the right platform to use. Also if you are already dependent on PVU licensing, go ahead with another IBM product.

It is less appropriate if you are already on VMware or Vsphere, as you will identify the difference of ease.
July 30, 2021

IBM Cloud - A True Cloud Environment

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is well suited for a company looking to move 100% to the cloud. It is also well suited for a company looking to not want to worry about onsite hardware costs and upkeep. It allows for less need for dedicated onsite IT staff as well as support is included with licensing.
July 22, 2021

IBM Cloud is a low cost cloud solution that provides good ROI

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you want to remove the management of the physical hardware from the equation. Helps shift from CapEx spend to OpEx. Provides good security and availability/uptime for business-critical workloads. Native VMware integration makes this a product that is easy to recommend.
April 26, 2021

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Rajesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rajesh Singh
CEO & MD
Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a test to have another site as DR and keeping it up to the level of our item site. IBM Cloud permits us not to stress over keeping up another site. It's not difficult to begin with IBM Cloud, moving beginning seeds, and keeping up reproducing information.
November 06, 2020

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions will raise your applications to new heights!

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions would be a good fit for a medium to large company looking to outsource their current in-house VMware products. The IBM solution would allow them to outsource their current infrastructure so that the company could then concentrate on their core business, whatever that may be.

A smaller company with a smaller VMware footprint would probably not be a good fit here. It's a pretty complex process to get things started, so it might not be worth it for a smaller company.
January 15, 2020

Scalability, reliability and sensibility.

Steve Redman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Redman
IT Manager
City of Jacksonville (Government Administration, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In a situation where backbone data center reliability is essential for redundancy and speed of operation, it excels. Another situation would be in deploying replication to other sites as the ease of access makes this a snap.
August 27, 2019

Best Solution

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is great - especially if you have a small IT staff and deal with challenges on day to day basis on keeping the environment up to date, not allowing to do new things and focus on new business objectives and goals. IBM cloud can address a need to have migrated IAAS or DRAAS. It's a cost-effective solution.
August 27, 2019

Fun on IBM Cloud

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it for bare metal and to support IBM specific products. Where it doesn't make sense are for workloads that are already container-based and customers are looking for a full platform.
August 27, 2019

IBM Cloud - The simple way to connect!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Networking Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe IBM Cloud [for VMware Solutions] is well suited for individuals who know their product, but not so much for cloud strategy. IBM helps us accelerate and plan the cloud journey and allows us to scale. I wouldn't recommend the IBM Cloud if you know how to scale and distribute the servers worldwide.
August 27, 2019

Our pleasant experience with vsphere cloud

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud is well suited for any companies that don't want to have to worry about the physical side of everything. If you are already looking to virtualization, then why not get rid of the physical infrastructure running the vSphere portion as well. A less appropriate scenario would be in the case of our SCADA systems. Due to the nature of these systems, we still prefer to keep the management and vSphere on prem.
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