We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, IBM PowerVM, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The initial setup is easy."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"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's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The product offers good stability."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The interface has to be updated."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"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."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The licensing could be better."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
