We performed a comparison between Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM, and RHEV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It helps us build servers."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"The interface is quite good."
"It is good for small installations."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"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."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"Technical support is great."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"I can control and manage everything. I know everything that's cooking inside. This is the best part for me."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"Storage via SMB3."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The performance should be improved."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"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."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"We hope that Red Hat can produce a paradigm edition. We are looking for paradigm computing and paradigm storage. Its scalability can be improved. It is not easy to scale, and we hope that Red Hat can provide a more scalable system. They should also provide local service and support. Our customers are looking for a good software vendor to provide professional services."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"The UI should be more interactive with additional features."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
