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."We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is great."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"It is a complete solution."
"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"It's quite stable."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The licensing could be better."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"Automatic LPM is an area that is currently not available in IBM PowerVM, and it is a feature I want to see in the product's future releases."
"The interface is not user-friendly in places, so it could use some improvement."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"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."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 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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