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What is IBM Power VM?

IBM PowerVM is server virtualization without limits. Businesses are turning to PowerVM server virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for AIX, IBM i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

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IBM PowerVM is server virtualization without limits. Businesses are turning to PowerVM server virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for AIX, IBM i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

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1911
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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.

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1. POWER VM is the best VMs in the market right now. It is robust, highly scalable, reliability is very high and on top of that availability is als...
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"It's no doubt one of the most powerful Virtualization techniques"
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What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

VIOS, VIOS and VIOC manage all things in proper way . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Nothing to dislike in may way . Everyone (AIX ADMINISTRATOR) like POWER VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You can created one to many port and manage virtualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

Stability is the key and that's the main advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Manageability. Managing IBM power VM is not very easy but can be managed by experienced engineers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Specialy to get the required uptime for our financial application services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Power VM?

-+Power VM memory sharing would be one of the best features I have ever seen on a virtual deployment, that would allow you to easily boots the memory usage on the deployed machines.

-+seamless no downtime with the maintenance windows they have a feature to even load with other machines

++Multiple tutorial for the services and improvement on the deployments.

++Impressive security and safeguard of the information former external threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

++The features are some distributed on paid services that sometime require a lot of investment to allow it to work on the best possible scenario(HA, scalability, resources for deployment). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Power VM:

This would represent a superior virtualization solutions for AIX, Linux and IBM i clients, other services would very likely be supported however, it up to you if this suit you.

Take into account that the services of the PowerVM is a combination of hardware, firmware, and software that provides CPU, network, and disk virtualization, this might have its's on limitations and would need further check on this according your requirements. These are the main virtualization technologies: POWER7, POWER6, and POWER5 hardware, POWER Hypervisor and Virtual I/O Server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

++New virtual domains, allows you improve on the VM domains that you have, also work wonders with Linux or Windows.

++Storage and speed on the deployments are quite fast to other options such as VMware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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real-time and historical performance reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Did not find any single problem. Expecting more features in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PowerVM is well suited for virtual machines that need access to high performance and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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allows one to configure VMs to optimum software licensing needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Power VM?

Did not find any problem. Expecting more features in future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Provides insight to specific VM performance and utilization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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