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."Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"It is a complete solution."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"Technical support is great."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"With AHV, you can run micro-segmentation, which is, on the network security level, to have network virtualization across clouds."
"The setup is efficient."
"The entirety of the infrastructure resides in the same product, which makes it easy to troubleshoot and investigate problems."
"In terms of features, Acropolis is a good virtualization manager and that it is on-premise. I use almost every technology they provide."
"If we want to move the virtual machine from one host to another, it's simple, straightforward, and stable."
"You don't need any other instruments for control, AHV. You only need to look at the prism to control all infrastructure."
"Nutanix is good for new implementations on the VM side. It's very good for disaster recovery and final storage."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"The performance should be improved."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"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."
"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."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"I would like to see better decompression or degrouping of the VMs so that we can use a single number of SQLs with two servers. We don't need a huge number of DXSPs."
"It's not a very scalable product."
"Some companies do not support AHV."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"It worked well in the beginning but after using it for some time, we found some limitations in terms of compatibility with other software."
"It would be better if the solution's replication to another site could be efficiently optimized."
"Nutanix misses alerts sometimes."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 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 Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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