We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM 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."Technical support is great."
"It is a complete solution."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"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 Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"The performance should be improved."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"This solution is lacking the ability to have servers act as a cluster, such as in VMware. IBM has come out with a feature similar to VMware's vCenter but it is not as mature. They need to add LPM shared-nothing feature, such as in vMotion."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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