Item: IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cloud solutions for our data platform for one of our revenue-generating applications. It is our infrastructure for our data platform so it no longer involves manual management. This has been great to give me more time in my day and be confident that our data is secure.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Flexible pricing depending on size and scale
Supports leveraging our IBM Enterprise Licensing Agreements
Good support from solutions architects and support teams

Cons

Better integrations with products like Terraform from Hashicorp
Provide more SaaS based solutions and platforms

Return on Investment

Positive: Less time managing and supporting the infrastructure that supports our data platform
We were able to complete a project faster than it would've taken to build out a data center and purchase hardware.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud for VMware solutions has been great and we haven't seen a need to look into competitors.

Other Software Used

Chef

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.

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Shannon Cardwell
(Vendor Representative) commented 6 years ago
Hello, This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. We are glad to hear your team’s productivity has increased as a result of the solution, and that support teams have been readily available and impactful. We are sorry to hear you found the integration and SaaS options lacking. As we continue to improve our product roadmap, these comments are extremely valuable. Integrations with Terraform are available through vSphere, and you can find more info here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmware-solutions-vs_vsphereclusteroverview For VMware SDDC environments on IBM Cloud, you can work with the VMware vSphere Provider: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vsphere/index.html Please visit our FAQ for further questions: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/infrastructure/vmware?topic=VMware-vmware-faq. In addition, please reach out to Jordan Shamir, our IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Offering Manager, at jordan.shamir@ibm.com to help personally resolve your issues.

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