Citrix Hypervisor vs IBM PowerVM comparison

"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."

"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."

"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."

"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."

"The initial setup is easy."

"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."

"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."

"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."

"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."

"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."

"Active Memory Sharing dynamically reallocates memory of running partitions based on changing workload demands. The memory for the pool is carved out from Physical memory and is made logical memory. The said memory is not available to be assigned to partitions as dedicated memory. A min, max and desired as well as weight is assigned to the memory of each lpar to help hypervisor make a decision in case a condition where priority is to be given to a certain lapr to use the memory form shared pool."

"Technical support is great."

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."

"IBM PowerVM has the highest clock speed."

"IBM PowerVM's most valuable feature is stability."

"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."

"I think the technical support could be better."

"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."

"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."

"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."

"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."

"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."

"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."

"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."

"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."

"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"

"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."

"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."

"The product's pricing could be less expensive compared to other competitors."

"If it could actually virtualize the entire platform it might be better. If you're having more than one virtualization technology, maybe there's a way to actually have less - one technology to run the data center and maybe one special virtualization for power. If it integrated with other platforms more effectively it might be better."

"Automatic LPM is an area that is currently not available in IBM PowerVM, and it is a feature I want to see in the product's future releases."

"The performance should be improved."

"Citrix Hypervisor is a licensed product, and customers who buy the Citrix XenDesktop get Citrix Hypervisor for free. If they don't buy the license for Citrix XenDesktop, they'll need to pay for Citrix Hypervisor and its price is high. Pricing is even higher than VMware. The licensing policy for Citrix Hypervisor is good. It's straightforward. The only issue is the price because it's an expensive product."

"The licensing is straight forward based on usage and features."

"To subscribe to the paid version with support, it is approximately $6,000 per year."

"We migrated from VMware to XenCenter to cut costs."

"Citrix is a good low-cost alternative to VMware, so if budgeting is an issue then I would recommend it."

"I am fine with their license support. What we have right now is permanent, so I don't have a problem with their license."

"There is a license required to use this solution. You need a license on every server, but the license is more for support than anything else. The cost is not expensive, it is a fraction of the cost of VMware. When you look at the cost overall and features, Citrix Hypervisor has a very attractive offering."

"The cost of this product is not high."

"Even if the product is expensive, it works well in the long term. The tool is more or less expensive, and I would presently describe it as an optimally priced product."

"IBM PowerVM costs more than other products but the customer does not need to pay additional money for the licenses. In VMware, you need to license everything. With IBM PowerVM it is unlimited and all-inclusive in the price you pay."

"The price varies from case to case and you have to negotiate it for every project."

"We have to purchase the product's licenses."

"The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive."

"The license cost is bundled with IBM Power Systems as it is limited to RISC-based IBM systems only."

"IBM PowerVM's pricing is cheap."

"The solution is expensive."