We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"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."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"The licensing could be better."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"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 product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
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IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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