Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server vs IBM Power Systems comparison

Huawei and IBM are both solutions in the Rack Servers category. Huawei is ranked #14, while IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.9. Huawei holds a 0.4% mindshare in Rack Servers, compared to IBM’s 8.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution.

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We performed a comparison between Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server and IBM Power Systems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei KunLun Mission Criti...

Ranking in Rack Servers

14th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Power Systems

Ranking in Rack Servers

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Rack Servers category, the mindshare of Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Power Systems is 8.7%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Rack Servers Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Power Systems	8.7%
Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server	0.4%
Other	90.9%

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Jesus Ospina

IT Solutions Consultant at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

A good server with useful features like partitions

Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server support can be better. HP has better support, and more customers have experience with this brand. For clients, there are opportunities to replace the server and take applications from the Huawei server to the Dell server. The server isn't the problem. The problem is with the applications and the database.

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Foluso Jibowo

Product Manager at Hiperdist Ltd

Has empowered enterprises with secure and cost-effective solutions

When discussing disadvantages, I do not see many areas for improvement because we have received good testimonies from every client. IBM gives customers peace of mind. One challenge, which I would not really call a challenge, is that initially people have the notion that IBM Power Systems is quite expensive. However, IBM does not lose deals based on price. This is a message we need to keep communicating to people who feel that IBM is on the high side in terms of cost. We encourage them to have a discussion with us about their total cost of ownership over three or five years. There is a notion in the market that IBM is expensive, which is false. However, once we engage and show them their return on investments and their total cost of ownership savings, they tend to embrace IBM.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Features like partitions are useful."

"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."

"Power Systems' best features include its user-friendliness and self-checking/self-healing abilities."

"The availability of a solution depends on the requirement of the customer. The most valuable feature is the virtualization. You can have this one system or you can use it for many. They were using almost 120 servers within that specific service."

"Active Memory Expansion allows you to compress your memory on the run time to allow you to have less physical memory available, but provision more memory to your partitions, as everything will be compressed on the fly."

"The solution does not require any maintenance."

"I use the hypervisor of IBM Power Systems a lot."

"The installation is easy."

"Some of the most valuable features are the processing power, stability, and security."

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Cons

"Support can be better."

"If you take advantage of some of these real advanced features, for oversubscribing as an example, it's not supported on Linux on Power. So that stops us, in particular, from going that way."

"I would like to see firmware available to all of the systems."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"I think the cost should be cheaper."

"Software testing and the compatibility of software products that are available in the market should be addressed."

"The price is a bit high and could be improved."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"In my country, there are power supply interruptions. IBM could find ways to make the product stable through these interruptions."

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"IBM Power Systems is very expensive."

"IBM Power Systems is a really expensive product."

"There is a yearly licensing cost, and it's an expensive solution."

"The price of IBM Power Systems is expensive and could improve."

"It is designed for a large workload, as opposed to a small workload. For our circumstances, and even as an independent, I can't buy a Power system to experiment on. It can't happen. You cannot buy them."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing costs are okay. With IBM Power Systems, it's inclusive, so you can differentiate the price of the hardware from the software itself."

"The machine is good and has a comparatively good price."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	42

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Also Known As

KunLun 9008, KunLun 9016, KunLun 9032

IBM OpenPOWER LC

Overview

KunLun Mission Critical Servers deliver the high reliability, performance, and scalability demanded by the x86 ecosystem and mission-critical environment. It leverages Huawei’s Node Controller (NC) and BMC management chips, and combines the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) node interconnect technology and RAS 2.0 technology. KunLun supports up to 768 cores on a single server and up to 1.97 scale-up linearity. It has been certified for operating SAP HANA of up to 16 TB for running S4H/SoH applications, and up to 8 TB for running BWoH applications. KunLun delivers industry-leading SAP SD2 and SAP B4H benchmark performance.

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IBM Power Systems are built to crush the most advanced data applications - from the mission-critical workloads you run today to the next generation of AI.

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