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."PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"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."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"It is a complete solution."
"The product never fails to work and is very stable in general. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's been a stable solution."
"The tool has very good performance."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"It is a community-based solution."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"I don't know whether this has been trialed already, but IBM should give us an alert when we reach seven or eight failovers so that we can automatically switch it to manual mode. That would be great because if we cross the 10-day licensing limit, we have to pay a hefty license cost to Oracle. If IBM could view that feature, it would be helpful in license compliance."
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"It is solely command-line based."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"The virtualization can be better."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"There should be a helm feature for managing Kubernetes ports directly from the Proxmox traffic interface."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"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."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
"The management can be better. It's not like VMware where you can get all clusters on a single dashboard. In VMware, you can literally see all the VMs running in one cluster regardless of the host."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
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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