IBM Power VM Reviews & Product Details

IBM PowerVM provides a reliable, secure, scalable, efficient, and highly available virtualization environment for IBM Power Systems for running IBM AIX, IBM i, and various Linux distributions.

Key features like Dynamic LPars, Micro-pratitioning, Live Partition Mobility, Shared Processor Pools, Strong Isolation and Security, and many more, position IBM PowerVM as a leader in Virtualization marketplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HMC and PowerVC requires training for new users.

Only available for IBM Power Systems.

Features and functionality can vary on different operating systems (AIX, IBM i and Linux). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM Power VM Provide the advanced virtualisation feature to save the cost of project and data centre infrastructure. IBM Power VM is easy to implement in IBM power servers . IBM Power VM provide a highly secure and scalable environment.

Easy to virtualise the physical ethernet and Storage HBA cards. It provides the CPU and Memory pool feature, which helps maintain the server performance.

Easily we can add and move the resource like CPU/Memory between the virtual LPARs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM Power VM is costly in the market compared to other VMs. I did not find any issue during work on IBM Power VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. POWER VM is the best VMs in the market right now. It is robust, highly scalable, reliability is very high and on top of that availability is also very. It is better than most players present in the market right now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maintenance activities sometimes take time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The possibility of using a native solution with support directly from IBM to virtualize our customer loads. IBM Power is the preferred solution for bankin organizations in the caribbean and Power VM helps reducing costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Typically this virtualization solution is considerably more expensive than other competitors such as VMWare, is worth to use based on performance, reliability, and security of the computing platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

performance, stability and security, you will get the most when using IBM PowerVM. In addition to the CPU pooling option which gives you the flexibility to combine the cores and to save a lot of money when it comes to software licenses. Also the online / dynamic resources allocation can save you when you face unexpected performance issues and finally it increases your availability and Business recovery when combined with IBM LPM and SRR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not user friendly as other hypervisors VMware and Hyper-V also it lacks to VM or LPAR replication to DR sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very good hardware with respect to its performance. It have very outstanding performance and its stability is very excellent. We are very satisfied by using this IBM Power VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Its really a good hardware. I dont have bad experience. I am using this and my all of performance issue resolved which we were facing previously. Power IBM VM is best one available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like about IBM Power VM is the ability to fully manage and operate the system using command prompt. this makes repeatable processes easy. Stability and reliability is world class. Resources are easily moveable from one partition to the other. Processor can be added and removed, Memory can also be added and removed as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that IBM Power VC works only on a power processor. I can only try to imagine a world where I can install a version of PowerVC on an intel machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the flexibility of managing the hardware resources such as RAM and CPU and network and storage. We had a requirement to increase storage and it has been added without downtime which is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing like dislike, it would be great we have more features like real time and historical performance monitoring in the system, more visibility on the communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To have any type of solution in workload and virtualization using IBM powerVM technology.

Uptime and keeping performance linear even when workload is high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Technology that IBM forgot years ago are still not available in other virtualization platform and only IBM users knows that and that is a bad for IBM marketing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy and interesting to work with power vm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i don't think so any thing i dislike in POWER VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.