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Comparison with VMware

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at January 23, 2025

This section helps engineers having experience with VMware to learn more about Yandex Cloud features. These two platforms are compared by the following key features:

  • Resource and role model
  • Computing infrastructure
  • Data storage subsystem (Storage)
  • Network
  • Management, monitoring, and billing tools

Key terms and definitionsKey terms and definitions

VMware term

Yandex Cloud term

Description

Virtual Datacenters (vDC)

Cloud

Isolated space provided to a user to place, store, and operate their information systems and applications

Organizations

Organizations

Root container for managing users, groups, identity federations, and computing resources

Organization Networks

VPC

Cloud networks providing resource connectivity

vApp

Instance Groups (in part) / Folder (in part)

Child container of a virtual datacenter (vDC) containing one or more VM instances

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