We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM 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 most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"The product never fails to work and is very stable in general. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"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."
"Technical support is great."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"The performance should be improved."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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