--- title: IBM Power Servers Reviews meta\_title: 'IBM Power Servers Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 97 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Power Servers works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 97 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Hardware url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-hardware --- # IBM Power Servers Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by IBM Power Servers but has limited features. Are you part of the IBM Power Servers team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! IBM Power is a family of high-performance servers built to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges. 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AV Ajay V. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/27/2023 "Experience using IBM Power Server" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? IBM Power Server provides the best servers for better load balancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? As of now there is no dislikes in IBM Power Server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? IBM Power Server provides 24\*7 support and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/28/2023 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Mohd Akram S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohd Akram S.") MS Mohd Akram S. UNIX/LINUX Engineering Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/22/2022 "IBM POWER systems - a true beast in computing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? The IBM POWER systems are very secure, reliable, and robust and serve the business needs of any organisation. It allows you to host your mission-critical applications without worrying about their breakdown due to infrastructure/platform issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? The most challenging job one has to do while using or thinking about deploying/using IBM POWER systems is to manage its cost. It hits your budget very hard. In addition, the after-sales prices, including maintenance/service charges, are also very high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves real business problems. Organisations can host their most critical applications on POWER systems with a piece of mind. Some of them are SAP, DB, FInancial and banking applications etc. It provides a very high uptime of systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Harish S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harish S.") HS Harish S. Senior Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/1/2022 "Best cloud servicing product in market" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? I would like to explore it and likes it on servers based services with cloud based services including storage and also hard ware appliances were also good at designs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? Least is the only matter of price which included all the services whole pack of the application based or cloud services which includes higher price in each of the products which also differs in functionalities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? Basically it's an servers services based appliances and also cloud based automations which are very higher end designing in terms of services and also based on understandable languages while using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JG Jacques G. Developer 11/1/2022 "A powerful tool that provides excellent and reliable features" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? I like that it is efficient, reliable and easy to use, provides good high-security features and is compatible with different versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? It could improve the servers a bit and increase the visibility of the options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? It is used for different scenarios and ideal environments for servers, we save costs and can configure the virtual environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![AMITESH S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AMITESH S.") AS AMITESH S. Linux Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/5/2022 "Secure and durable servers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? Basically, In IBM through HMC we can manage all servers and we can manage resources also like CPUs and Memories. OS level backup mksysb option is a positive point of IBM AIX OS as compare Linux OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? Comparing booting time is quite slow as compared to other physical servers. OS patches are also not frequently updated in IBM AIX which is Sometimes affects our production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? We can utilize IBM power servers with very few resources like CPU memory through HMC. But performance of these servers are very good as compared to other servers like HPE, Dell servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Cristian R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cristian R.") CR Cristian R. Deputy General Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/23/2022 "One of the most reliable servers that I ever used." 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? Simplicity. Once you configure them, you can forgot them. The LPAR's act like individual servers and are very flexible when you need to increase their processing power. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? Maybe it would be better to have more user friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? We use the IBM Power Servers to run Oracle databases and I have to say that they manage very well the I/O and have an excellent performance when we speak about memory and CPU management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite JP Jens P. Systemadministrator AIX / WBS BLANK 8/2/2022 "Hardware that almost never dies" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? Stability, Power ecosystem works perfectly together. Management of servers and virtual machines is made as easy as possible with the hardware management console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? The learning curve is higher than usual. The software support for linux virtual machines is not as good as it should be. Maintenance costs are really high after the first six years of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? The used ERP system is a COBOL solution, that runs best on AIX. With the stability of hardware and software, we have no unplanned downtime of our system. Thanks to LPM, we can switch between our sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Shoaib A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shoaib A.") SA Shoaib A. Unix System Administrator 9/24/2022 "Very secure ,robust and scalable in use" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? The first thing I like most is ibm server that it is very secure and anyone can use this ,it's reliable and robust for use. Scalable as compare to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? It's costly to purchase and as it is difficult to migrate it on cloud only this is the challenge for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? It is hosting mission critical use for business applications like sap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G Verified User 7/1/2022 "IBM power servers are very powerful and reliable" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? Ibm power servers are powerful and very reliable. It can help your business to be almost to zero downtime. All components can be replaced wothout downtime when set-up well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? Not so many options for database support. I think getting more database to cater small to medium companies that needs reliable and powerful servers that are bery cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Power Servers: The server is highly recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? Ibm power servers serves as a very reliable computing machine for banks and other types of companies. Having one of these servers is very cost effective because you can set it uo and go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SL Steve L. Senior Systems Engineer 8/1/2022 "AIX on Power is superior to Windows on x86 in every measure." 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Power Servers? The RAS features are superior to any x86 server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Power Servers? Bottom line, they cost too much for management that doesn't understand the benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Power Servers solving and how is that benefiting you? They host two of our highest profile clinical applications with minimal downtime compared to clinical applications on x86. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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