We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM, Oracle VM, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"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 is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"It is a complete solution."
"Technical support is great."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"The solution is scalable."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"The licensing could be better."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"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."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"Its database management features could be better."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"I know VMWare has this Operations Manager. I know that it comes at a price because VMWare normally wants to charge for everything in the software. But I'm not seeing all the features of the Operations Manager. I only see a few features. If all the features can be included in one package, that would be good."
