We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM 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."It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"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."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"It is a stable product."
"The network capabilities are good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"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."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"A GUI version of VIOS would be a great plus for people moving from Intel-based hypervisors."
"If it could actually virtualize the entire platform it might be better. If you're having more than one virtualization technology, maybe there's a way to actually have less - one technology to run the data center and maybe one special virtualization for power. If it integrated with other platforms more effectively it might be better."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"I would like for IBM to be more focuses on the cloud."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 25 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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