We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It helps us build servers."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"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."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The performance should be improved."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The licensing could be better."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
