We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and VMware Workstation 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."
"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."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"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 feature that I like most is the versatility."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The product is really easy to use."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The performance is good."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"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."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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