We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Proxmox VE 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 stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"Technical support is great."
"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."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the speed. Additionally, I can modify the solution if needed because it is open-source and the integration of any kind of API and monitoring is hassle-free."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"The solution's compatibility is very good with multiple operating systems. The moving systems are very good and migration is excellent. These are the most valuable features for us."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"Automatic LPM is an area that is currently not available in IBM PowerVM, and it is a feature I want to see in the product's future releases."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The licensing could be better."
"The performance should be improved."
"It is solely command-line based."
"The virtualization can be better."
"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Proxmox VE 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Odin Virtuozzo Containers. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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