IBM PowerVM supports multiple operating systems such as IBM i, AIX, and Linux, allowing users to run various applications seamlessly in a cloud environment. The Live Partition Mobility feature, although not detailed in my experience, supports versatile deployment. IBM PowerVM's seamless cloud migration and operating system support make it valuable for clients willing to transition to cloud environments while maintaining reliability. View full review »

PowerVM stands out for me as a hardware-based hypervisor, which is optimized with less overhead. It supports specific workloads, like Oracle and SAP HANA, much better due to its shared processor pool feature which reduces licensing costs. In visualization, it offers a built-in accelerators feature to handle AI inference effectively while minimizing power requirements.

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The practicality of IBM PowerVM is a crucial feature, especially with the help of HMC (Hardware Management Console). The Live Partition Mobility help us handle virtual adapters effectively when we need to upgrade firmware or the system, and LPM helps us transfer workloads with minimal downtime. This feature ensures that our systems remain online even during maintenance, significantly minimizing any potential disruptions.

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PowerVM excels in efficiently managing all systems and environments, including development, UI, and production. This comprehensive management is crucial for my organization. We use PowerVM in a product like IBM Content Manager and other corresponding products.

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It offers stability, resilience, and reliability. They handle the workloads very easily. 

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IBM PowerVM provides robust virtualization capabilities, integrated within the machine itself. It includes features like shared processor functionality, offering control over licensing of databases such as Oracle. Features like partition mobility enhance the machine's capabilities, making it an ideal tool for virtual environments with reliability, availability, and serviceability. View full review »

PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability. This is because it's the only hypervisor that can be set up in a dual configuration. While you can usually install only one hypervisor per physical machine, with IBM PowerVM, you can install two different virtualization instances, known as Virtual I/O Servers (VIOS). This allows for redundancy and failover, ensuring high availability. 

Additionally, PowerVM has IBM's Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) at the upper level, providing further management and control capabilities not found in many other hypervisors.

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Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM.       

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The tool's most valuable feature is administration. 

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It is a reliable system with 99.9% uptime. The live operational ability is there. 

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The most valuable feature of PowerVM is the dynamic allocation of resources. It allows us to move resources on the fly without needing to bounce applications or servers.

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IBM PowerVM offers LPAR - the hard partitioned VM which helps us to ensure our Oracle licensing compliance. If you use soft partitioning technologies like VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V etc., there will be potentially a major licensing compliance issue.

IBM PowerHA is used for higher availability of our mission critical Oracle ERP system. This high availability feature is used subject to the Oracle's free "10-days failover" licensing policy. This allows us to have a full fledged fail-over cluster without any licensing impact for the secondary server.

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The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity. This involves automatically assigning resources and setting priorities. For instance, specific processes can be prioritized over others, ensuring that higher-priority tasks can utilize resources from lower-priority systems in case of limited resources.

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You can increase resources with it automatically. You can start with a very small capacity of the computer itself. You can have shared resources between multiple applications of the same virtual machines. It is like a shared pool between resources. It is not complicated like others on the market. First of all, consolidation, and second, it is efficient in resource utilization. It is a very elastic solution.

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The tool's performance is top-notch. 

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The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload.

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The solution is comprised of robust technology and is RISC architecture. The hardware is excellent. We never have any issues with it.

The stability is excellent. It's 99% stable. It offers amazing uptime.

The solution is very secure. It does a good job of protecting against cybersecurity threats. We feel safe in this environment.

IBM, as a principle itself, is available here in Pakistan, which is quite helpful. Technical support is great. The parts availability and their engineers, and even their support level at the backend, including a proper research team that can cater to any sort of the issues, are all available here.

They do have the high availability models, they have the HACMP, and they have the GPFS, and they have the Live Partition Mobility. The technology is advancing fast. 

If one can afford commercial offering with respect to the licensing cost and things, their research is going in the right direction in order to hopefully make it more affordable down the line. 

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Shared Processer pools and active memory sharing are the features that are the hallmark of PowerVM. 

Shared Processer Pools allows PowerVM to automatically allocate processing power from a shared pool of processors based on the workload requirement. This enables better throughput and balancing of processing power as well as cost savings for processor-based licenses. An lpar can be provided an upper limit restricting lpar not to exceed the configured limit in case additional processing power is required from the shared processing pool. This also helps in restricting lpars from exceeding a certain processor count, especially where the application or workload license is based on processing power also ensuring compliance at all times.

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.

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It's flexible to license virtual machines and power them with Oracle. If Oracle can not be virtualized in neutral, they actually say you pay a license for the whole box even if you want just one feature from Oracle. Our machine has got 60 CPUs, and that's just through a virtual machine. If I have an entire box and I put on VMware virtualization, Oracle makes me license the whole box even if my Oracle VM it was maybe just two CPUs out of maybe a box with 16 CPUs. Therefore, power machines seem to be more flexible, which is why we use the power machines for Oracle or Oracle databases.

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PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration.

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Overall, I like IBM's performance and stability.

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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. The IBM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) feature lets you keep partitions running during data moves between the source and clusters. When using this solution with VMware you have the option in the vMotion not to share anything, such as storage or servers and you can have them on different platforms. 

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The case fileserver on the webserver is the most valuable feature. 

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The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network. 

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The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform.

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The feature that I like most is the versatility. 

This solution is very secure when compared to others.

This is a very flexible solution.

This is a portable solution that you can locate wherever you want.

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What I like about this solution is that it is easy to configure.

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IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability.

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