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 most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"It is a stable product."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"A valuable feature of PowerVM is a feature that is used for higher availability plus stream for posting, which is very useful. There's a flash copy feature which we are using. PowerVM itself, I know, helps us to control and manage our Oracle licensing compliance, since it is our hardware partitioning. This is very important. If you use VMware, there will be a licensing issue. This PowerVM is a hardware partitioner, which is very important for license compliance. We are happy with this solution."
"The product never fails to work and is very stable in general. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The solution is quite pricey."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"The licensing could be better."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The performance should be improved."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 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, KVM 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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