We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"It is a complete solution."
"Technical support is great."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"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."
"We always recommend PowerVM to our customers; it is better than most solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"The product works well."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
"The performance should be improved."
"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."
"It is solely command-line based."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"It would be better if software updates occur automatically."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"Its price could be better."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE.
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