We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM, Oracle VM, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"It is a complete solution."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"Technical support is great."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"It's a very mature product."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"The cost of this solution is 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."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"The performance should be improved."
"The licensing could be better."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"Productivity in Oracle VM could still be improved, and an additional feature to make the product better is compatibility with Kubernetes and other modern technologies."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"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."
"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."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
