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# Comparison with VMware

This section helps engineers having experience with [VMware](https://www.vmware.com/) to learn more about Yandex Cloud features. These two platforms are compared by the following key features:

* [Resource and role model](resource-role-model.md)
* [Computing infrastructure](computing-infrastructure.md)
* [Data storage subsystem (Storage)](storage-subsystem.md)
* [Network](network-subsystem.md)
* [Management, monitoring, and billing tools](management-tools.md)

## Key terms and definitions {#concepts}

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|| **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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