We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."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 stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"The product never fails to work and is very stable in general. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"It is a complete solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"It's stable."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"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."
"If it could actually virtualize the entire platform it might be better. If you're having more than one virtualization technology, maybe there's a way to actually have less - one technology to run the data center and maybe one special virtualization for power. If it integrated with other platforms more effectively it might be better."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"This solution is lacking the ability to have servers act as a cluster, such as in VMware. IBM has come out with a feature similar to VMware's vCenter but it is not as mature. They need to add LPM shared-nothing feature, such as in vMotion."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"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."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 27 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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