We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox 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."The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"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 solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"Any improvements that can be made in the interface will go a long way to helping us work better."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"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."
"This solution is lacking the ability to have servers act as a cluster, such as in VMware. IBM has come out with a feature similar to VMware's vCenter but it is not as mature. They need to add LPM shared-nothing feature, such as in vMotion."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 62 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. 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 VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and RHEV. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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