We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM 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."Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It is stable."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"It is good for small installations."
"The initial setup is easy."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"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."
"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."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"Technical support is great."
"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"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 solution is quite pricey."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and OpenVZ, whereas IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox. See our Hyper-V vs. IBM PowerVM report.
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