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"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"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."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"It's stable."
"Technical support is very good."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"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."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"Its price could be better."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"Installing VMware Workstation isn't so easy. It's highly complex compared to Windows. I rate it four out of 10 for ease of installation. Setting up a remote desktop only takes a minute or so, but the Workstation itself takes some time."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE.
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