We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"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."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"Technical support is great."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"The performance should be improved."
"The licensing could be better."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"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."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"The documentation could be improved."
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IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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