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."The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"The interface is quite good."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"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."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"Technical support is great."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"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."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"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."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The performance should be improved."
"The licensing could be better."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"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."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"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 132 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". 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, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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