We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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."The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"It is a complete solution."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"Active Memory Sharing dynamically reallocates memory of running partitions based on changing workload demands. The memory for the pool is carved out from Physical memory and is made logical memory. The said memory is not available to be assigned to partitions as dedicated memory. A min, max and desired as well as weight is assigned to the memory of each lpar to help hypervisor make a decision in case a condition where priority is to be given to a certain lapr to use the memory form shared pool."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"Technical support is great."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"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 dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"Nutanix AHV works really well. It's much easier to administer and manage than VMware. Since we're not a large IT department within the finance sector, our team is relatively small. We don't have a huge team of IT professionals to manage all the other systems."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"We use Prism Central, the centralized management console for AHV clusters. It allows administrators to manage multiple clusters from a single interface and provides a unified view of the entire infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is manageability."
"With AHV, you can run micro-segmentation, which is, on the network security level, to have network virtualization across clouds."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The performance should be improved."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"It is solely command-line based."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"It's not a very scalable product."
"There is room for improvement in the USB mapping."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"If we have to opt for a high level of capacity planning and need more analytics—like deciding on new purchases or budgeting, or if we need additional resources in the near future—we need to pay for Prism Central. I would suggest that Nutanix improve a bit on the analytics part of Prism Element so we can calculate those kinds of things within that flavor."
"The price of Nutanix AHV Virtualization could improve."
"It would be better if the solution's replication to another site could be efficiently optimized."
"The solution can be pricey."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 48 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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