IBM PowerVM Primary Use Case

Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Our primary use case for this solution is for coding systems and applications. IBM PowerVM has a separate market segment for systems and servers. It has Intel systems and Power Systems. Intel-based or RISC and CISC-based systems are generic. The standard system is CISC-based, so it's a Compact Instruction Set of Computers. In contrast, Power Systems, which we usually procure, is RISC-based, a Reduced Instruction Set system.

Power Systems has a separate market segment regarding systems or servers. So you have Intel systems, and you have Power Systems. Intel-based or RISC and CISC-based are very generic. The standard system you get is CISC-based systems, so it's a Compact Instruction Set of Computers, whereas Power Systems that we usually procure are RISC-based, which is a Reduced Instruction Set system.

Primarily, they differ in the way they process data. Secondly, we have a workload requiring higher clock speed, so when we buy a processor, we look at multiple things. First, we look at how much clock speed the processor gives, which means the power for a single thread of the processor to process data. So let's say you have two processors, one with one gigahertz of thread speed and a second with 40 hertz. The 40 hertz is going to work four times faster when it is processing data. So clock speed is what matters. So when we need higher clock speeds, which means we have heavily dependent or heavy threads or multiple applications with heavy threads, we go for systems with higher clock speeds, and in that case, IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed up till now.

Secondly, when you need higher memory bandwidth, data travel from disc to memory and from memory to processor for processing. So if the road connecting your disc with your memory and your professor is more comprehensive, you can track and send multiple higher traffic. The other important factor is that in use cases where you need higher bandwidth, throughput from memory is where you should use IBM PowerVM.

And third, IBM PowerVM has a higher cache processor. So when the data is processed in a processor, it must first travel to the cache. There are multiple levels, levels 1, 2, 3, and so on. So you will need higher cache memory, which means fewer round trips from memory to processor and cache. It means faster performance. So you procure IBM PowerVM or systems alike. We deploy the solution on-premises.

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Sujeet-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure at Path Infotech ltd

IBM PowerVM is a stable operating system, and we haven't experienced any performance impact in AIX. It is very reliable. Currently, the main purpose for using it is customer migration to Linux or server consolidation based on their requirements. The market is changing with more customers shifting towards Linux.

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Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Gatron Industries is rolling out one of the largest Digital Transformation program of the Country and require a platform that can provide industry leading Reliability, Availability and Scalability to host the Critical Tier 1 workloads. A no compromise approach was to be taken to ensure that the platform on which our SAP Landscape is hosted performs consistently. It was also required that the Virtualization technology should perform equally well for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. The platform also required to be flexible and must adapt to the changing workloads.

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Naunton Cheesman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Cloudstratex

As a consultant, I primarily use IBM PowerVM for solutions related to SAP and Oracle.

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MohamedAmr - PeerSpot reviewer
Infra Business Development Manager at GBM

It is hardware-level virtualization. It does not consume anything from the computer resources. It is pretty good and is light. It is not like VMware or Veeam. It doesn't require a lot of resources.

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SamuelOguta - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT Infrastructure & Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to create logical partitions. 

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MK
Chief Information Officer at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use PowerVM and PowerHA for our ERP system. The primary datacenter has two Power S922 nodes on a PowerHA failover cluster. Each node has two LPARs - one LPAR for Oracle database and another for e-business suite application. The disaster recovery datacenter has one Power S922 node with two LPARs - one for database and another for application.

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JL
Owner at Inventrics technologies

Customer use the software for core and critical systems.

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Mohamed Ibrahim Gaber - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Arab African International Bank

It is a complete solution. The virtual fibre, virtual network and SRIV are all stable and fit heavy load requirements. Therefore, the solution is suitable for its purpose and targets specific customers, which requires high stability and a high profile.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

We're using the solution primarily on power machines and the default specialization software, IVM Power. Our power machines are specifically used to run Oracle databases.

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MG
Unix Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case of PowerVM is for our core banking system. We split our servers into multiple partitions, each one has a specific task for the project. 

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AS
IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

We primarily use this solution for virtualization to consolidate workloads efficiently.

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IS
Systems PreSales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case for IBM PowerVM is helping customers move more than one machine. We use PowerVM to create virtual machines, even if the use case is for an enterprise and resealable. We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions.

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it_user1195593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for virtualization in an on-premises deployment.

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AY
Senior Database Administrator at a government with 11-50 employees

I primarily use PowerVM for Oracle databases and the Oracle WebLogic server.

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Amro Saleh - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Arab Bank

PowerVM is used to virtualize IBM Power Servers. It is for IBM Power Servers. It needs specific experience and needs to be professionally managed. Our customers needed proficiency and practical experience with it and it's not easy to find experienced engineers for it. 

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PB
System Engineer at Unistar

We are a system integrator and IBM PowerVM is one of the solutions that we implement for our clients. I am not a solution architect, but I provide assistance with PowerVM.

It is primarily used for business-critical operations like SAP or Oracle databases.

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EL
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case is to migrate the server from a standalone server to a VM server. 

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