We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM 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."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."
"Technical support is great."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"Oracle VM is user-friendly and facilitates compliance with Oracle Licensing, a feature not provided by competitors like VMware or Hyper-V. Oracle prefers customers to use their technology. It is also easy to implement, clone, and deploy machines with Oracle VM, making it a convenient solution."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM 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."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"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 program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"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 usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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