We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM, Oracle VM, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"Technical support is great."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"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."
"It's a very mature product."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"It helps us with TCO."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"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 hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"The licensing could be better."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"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."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"Response time could be improved."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
