We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"It is good for small installations."
"The interface is quite good."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"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."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"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."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"The interface has to be updated."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"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."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
