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."The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"It is a complete solution."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"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 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."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
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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