We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and RHEV 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."PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"It is a complete solution."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"Technical support is great."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Customers are moving to open source and Red Hat is the leader in this particular space. I think customers feel more confident running Red Hat Virtualization than VMware."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"I don't know whether this has been trialed already, but IBM should give us an alert when we reach seven or eight failovers so that we can automatically switch it to manual mode. That would be great because if we cross the 10-day licensing limit, we have to pay a hefty license cost to Oracle. If IBM could view that feature, it would be helpful in license compliance."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"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 cost of this solution is high."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while RHEV is rated 7.6. 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 RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas RHEV is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and Oracle VM. See our IBM PowerVM vs. RHEV report.
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