We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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."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."
"Technical support is great."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"It is a complete solution."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"The setup is efficient."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"In terms of features, Acropolis is a good virtualization manager and that it is on-premise. I use almost every technology they provide."
"The storage features and volume system are great."
"Nutanix AHV virtualization requires little disk size for a huge number of servers. We can do everything from a single dashboard, monitoring performance, and single-task boxes."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you don't need to pay for it, it's free, as opposed to paying for a VMware license."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"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."
"The licensing could be 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."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"Adding even more integrations would be an improvement."
"The solution could improve the call logging system to HPE, it is a bit tedious."
"When we need to share, publish, or encrypt something, we still need to perform it using the command line."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"There are some issues with the interface and integration."
"The product must provide geo clusters."
"The initial installation is complex. It took approximately four days."
"It's not a very scalable product."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 48 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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 Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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