IBM PowerVM vs. OpenVZ

IBM Power VM is well suited in a large environment where we have to run multiple virtual machines on a single hardware and utilize the hardware more efficiently. It directly saves the cost of the organization. Due to the high licensing cost of IBM Power VM, it's less appropriate for smaller, less critical applications that do not need a lot of performance.

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If you are considering to use Docker and Kubernetes then you can give a try to OpenVZ and Proxmox. It is a good alternative and it is as good as Docker and Kubernetes

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• Offers a very granular virtualization of each core.
• Provides a quick and easy environment to build and maintain.
• Is rock solid and provides a reliable production environment.

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• It is container-based virtualization
• It is not resource-heavy
• It is better then KVM

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• We have yet to upgrade VIOs from 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 which will provide the more GUI centric management, however, making the VIO servers easier to manage would be one area. I think this is done with the latest versions of HMC and PowerVM.
• More real-time and historical performance reporting.

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• Since it is a container-based solution, you can't run any other OS, except for Linux
• It is not so popular as Docker, but it's not that bad

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The product works. It provides the proven environment to support IBM's primary operating systems that run on the IBM Power processing systems. This by extension includes the IBM various storage products that work within that environment. It has proven to be seamless as the environment has grown and as various new products and version updates have been added. As with most IBM products, the support is excellent.

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IBM PowerVM is the best and most stable product in the virtualization market. It gives the best performance with IBM Power Server, especially its best solution, where we have to run critical applications and save applications licensing costs. It provides a lot of good features like LPM, shared processor pool...etc, which makes the environment more flexible.

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Kubernetes and Docker are de-facto standards today, but I think that OpenVZ and Proxmox are better solutions

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• We are able to run several LPARs on one frame, which means we do not need to buy as many physical servers. That saves on floor space, power, and heating and cooling of the data center, among other things.
• Using LPM allows us to do maintenance on a frame without impacting the LPARs, giving us greater uptime.

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• It's free, so you can try it and figure out if it suited for your needs

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