We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox 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 is a complete solution."
"The most valuable features in this solution are you do not get degradation in the performance like you could get in other solutions. There is a physical adapter that is better than a virtual one and you can assign adapters to a VM."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is great."
"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."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The licensing could be better."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"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."
"It is solely command-line based."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The interface should be easier to comprehend"
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 62 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. 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 VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and RHEV. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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