We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM 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."It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private network. The security is set."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"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 performance should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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