We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"Active Memory Sharing dynamically reallocates memory of running partitions based on changing workload demands. The memory for the pool is carved out from Physical memory and is made logical memory. The said memory is not available to be assigned to partitions as dedicated memory. A min, max and desired as well as weight is assigned to the memory of each lpar to help hypervisor make a decision in case a condition where priority is to be given to a certain lapr to use the memory form shared pool."
"It is a complete solution."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"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."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"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."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The licensing could be better."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Make it easier to manage."
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IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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