We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM 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."This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It helps us build servers."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"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."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"I don't know whether this has been trialed already, but IBM should give us an alert when we reach seven or eight failovers so that we can automatically switch it to manual mode. That would be great because if we cross the 10-day licensing limit, we have to pay a hefty license cost to Oracle. If IBM could view that feature, it would be helpful in license compliance."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"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."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and OpenVZ, whereas IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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