User Reviews of IBM PowerVM

Updated December 2024

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IBM PowerVM review

Atif Najam
Atif Najam
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd
A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure
The only problem with the IBM system is improving its hardware licensing model. For example, when you procure a server with 40 physical codes, you must also procure licenses to activate the codes. In Dell or any system, you procure the hardware and have the full right to use the hardware. For IBM, it's different because when you procure a...
IBM PowerVM review

Atif Najam
Atif Najam
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd
Offers mobility and you can seamlessly move a VM between different PowerVM instances
PowerVM is likely one of the most stable hypervisors available, albeit highly specialized. However, it is solely command-line based. When someone manages virtualization as a whole, they typically expect a graphical user interface (GUI) for configurations. This is the case for Hyper-V, XenServer, and VMware. But with PowerVM, you need to...

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