We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The tool's most valuable feature is administration."
"The tool's performance is top-notch."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is easy to configure."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"PowerVM's most valuable features include swift optimisation and real-time migration."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the technical aspects, focusing on elements like processor infinity."
"The technical support is good."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The licensing could be better."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The solution is quite pricey."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"I don't know whether this has been trialed already, but IBM should give us an alert when we reach seven or eight failovers so that we can automatically switch it to manual mode. That would be great because if we cross the 10-day licensing limit, we have to pay a hefty license cost to Oracle. If IBM could view that feature, it would be helpful in license compliance."
"This solution is lacking the ability to have servers act as a cluster, such as in VMware. IBM has come out with a feature similar to VMware's vCenter but it is not as mature. They need to add LPM shared-nothing feature, such as in vMotion."
"As understand it, IBM sells all its hardware to Lenovo, and only PCs servers are managed by IBM. It's uncertain how much longer IBM will continue in this way, especially with the current trend of transitioning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid models. The market is evolving. Given this market shift, it's essential to identify areas for improvement. IBM has introduced the PowerVM Series, including Linux, which is a positive step. However, customers are already moving towards x86 servers due to cost considerations. The cost of PowerVM compared to x86 servers appears to be a significant factor."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"The product is outdated."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". IBM PowerVM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Proxmox VE, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE.
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