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Sanad Z.

IBM Infrastructure Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2020

"PowerVM is very powerful virtualization."

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

The stability and features that I can work with especially when using HMC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

The is nothing to disklike when we are talking about PowerVM it is stable with many many features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DG

Dinesh G.

Lead Digital Cloud Architect - Hybrid Cloud

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/3/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"PowerVM Decision Making"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

The best I've seen in PowerVM are micro-portioning, LPM, Single Root I/O, Active Memory Sharing, NPIV. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

No integration with other platform rather IBM Power Series and limited community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ayaz A.

Team Lead Technical IBM & Huawei

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/16/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"IBM POWER VM made for core application"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

for the performance and core banking sectors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

IBM POWER VM is very expense for low budget customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AB

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/19/2020

"It is easy than VMware, but I think it can be more user-friendly"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

The managing of server resources is the most helpful in IBM Power VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

The least helpful in my opinion is that there are no many repositories like in another unix family Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/17/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Easy to interact"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

Consolidation of multiple workloads, efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Hard to say, maybe more easier to recieve support and feedback when requiered, and also that doesnt support win os. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Power VM:

PowerVM is directly incorporated into the Power Systems platform and brings with it the platform's integrated security, characteristics that go a long way in making PowerVM worth serious consideration for enterprise workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Power VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

remote restarts on LPARs, suspend and resume LPAR operations, and migrate active or inactive LPARs from one system to another Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CC

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/14/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"IBM PowerVM the best server virtualization tool for IBM Systems"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

Single tool to virtualize across workloads and easy to use and secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

It is chargeable to customer which might be a downside but it is definitely worth the investment of you have to save long term Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Power VM:

A great tool to consider for virtualization if you are a IBM systems shop . I have already articulated the benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Power VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

We achieve scale out and scale up done easily and automate the virtualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/20/2020

"Poweful and Secure"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

I liked the capability of dynamically distributing resources across all systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

I think the VIO setup can be simplified or at last the update process of it feels like a very risky procedure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/22/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"It's no doubt one of the most powerful Virtualization techniques"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

It's stability is something anyone will like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Nothing much but you need end to end knowledge to implement this and also GUI is not that useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CB

Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/1/2020

"PowerVM is the most efficient resource computing hypervisor on the market."

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

Its ability to virtualize from the chip and up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Little bit confusing with the enhanced hmc, creation of virtual repository for installing vm little bit complicated, also hmc interface should be more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CM

CH. M.

Team Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/17/2020

"Ibm virtualization is very fast and reliable resource to use for big data and for secure data"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

Most reliable and scalable cloud environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Expensive and difficult and no guide to deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.