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# WPARs Reviews
**Vendor:** IBM  
**Category:** [Container Engine Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-engine)  
**Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About WPARs
WPARs enable you to virtualize your operating system without creating full LPARs on your IBM System p partitioned server. WPARs provide similar levels of isolation, but without the overhead of the full system image.




## WPARs Reviews
  ### 1. Experience while using WPARs

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Neha J. | Salesforce developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2023

**What do you like best about WPARs?**

It is very useful as it makes our work very easy to keep track of work , keep track of employees and if someone found difficultly then they can raise ticket and someone solve there issue.

**What do you dislike about WPARs?**

As in starting candidates found it difficult to use beacuse it is new and in starting not much people are aware about it and if someone new starts using it than for help he/she not get information on internet on the starting time.

**What problems is WPARs solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is solving problems on the vast keeping track of employees, project, sprints , employees which are working on which story .It makes everything easy to manage .

  ### 2. An Amazing tool for providing high performance virtual os

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2022

**What do you like best about WPARs?**

The perform of the virtual os is really good.
It just feels like using an OS in personal machine.
The way it separates the enterprise application processes without putting load on the os is just outstanding

**What do you dislike about WPARs?**

It can be difficult to manage and configure when there are a lot of other devices connected to the same network.
Also separation of different tasks and processes from the shared ones can sometimes cause performance issues.

**What problems is WPARs solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Separating different application environments for isolated development of solutions.
Providing independent environments for developers to run their own version of applications.

  ### 3. Workload partition vs docker vs OS

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Volodimir S. | Customer Support Expert, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021

**What do you like best about WPARs?**

WPARs are really quick with deployment and helpful with preparing environment to test applications. It is useful to create WPARs directly from Smit.

**What do you dislike about WPARs?**

They are not so well known as dockers and can be used just with AIX.

**What problems is WPARs solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is very helpful to create separate environments with lack of HDD space.


## WPARs Discussions
  - [What is WPARs used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-wpars-used-for)

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## WPARs Features
**Application Support**
- Deployment
- Interface support
- Processor support
- Application Support

**System Capability**
- Self Healing High Availability
- Orchestration
- Scalability

**Security**
- Automatic Security Updates
- Security updates

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