User Reviews of Hyper-V & IBM PowerVM

Updated March 2024

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Hyper-V review

Kevin Ewing
Kevin Ewing
IT Director at HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC
It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single...
The most significant issues have with Hyper-V are the snapshots, local backup, and retention. VMware handles their backups are a lot better. I'd also like to see the ability to virtually hook an input-output device directly to the Hyper-V and the VMs, whether it be a card reader or disk drive. This is something you can do in VMware. We...
IBM PowerVM review

Atif Najam
Atif Najam
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd
A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure
The only problem with the IBM system is improving its hardware licensing model. For example, when you procure a server with 40 physical codes, you must also procure licenses to activate the codes. In Dell or any system, you procure the hardware and have the full right to use the hardware. For IBM, it's different because when you procure a...

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