We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and Proxmox VE 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."Technical support is great."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"It is a complete solution."
"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."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"The virtualization is good."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"We now have the ability to quickly build and deploy VM desktops for application testing with the snapshot ability to rollback, as required."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"PowerVM's platform build and performance could be improved."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The licensing could be better."
"IBM PowerVM does not integrate with Microsoft."
"The performance should be improved."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"The scalability could be better."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Odin Virtuozzo Containers. See our IBM PowerVM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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