We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM 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 product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The performance is very good."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"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."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"The performance should be improved."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The licensing could be better."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and OpenVZ, whereas IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox. See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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