We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM 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."The solution's technical support is the best."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"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."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"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."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"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."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"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."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and OpenVZ, whereas IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE. See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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