We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a very manageable product."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It is a stable product."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"A valuable feature of PowerVM is a feature that is used for higher availability plus stream for posting, which is very useful. There's a flash copy feature which we are using. PowerVM itself, I know, helps us to control and manage our Oracle licensing compliance, since it is our hardware partitioning. This is very important. If you use VMware, there will be a licensing issue. This PowerVM is a hardware partitioner, which is very important for license compliance. We are happy with this solution."
"The product never fails to work and is very stable in general. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"It is a complete solution."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"This solution is lacking the ability to have servers act as a cluster, such as in VMware. IBM has come out with a feature similar to VMware's vCenter but it is not as mature. They need to add LPM shared-nothing feature, such as in vMotion."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and OpenVZ, whereas IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox. See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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