IBM PowerVM vs. Oracle VM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM PowerVM
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM PowerVM provides a server virtualization environment.N/A
Oracle VM
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for the entire computing environment.N/A
Pricing
IBM PowerVMOracle VM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM PowerVMOracle VM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM PowerVMOracle VM
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM PowerVM
8.1
4 Ratings
3% below category average
Oracle VM
7.2
6 Ratings
15% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning7.52 Ratings5.76 Ratings
Management console6.74 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup9.01 Ratings5.65 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration8.23 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security9.04 Ratings8.44 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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User Ratings
IBM PowerVMOracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(4 ratings)
7.8
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM PowerVMOracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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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Oracle
Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present.
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Pros
IBM
  • 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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Oracle
  • Installation and setup of VM Server are pretty straight forward.
  • Many different guest operating systems are supported.
  • There can be up to 128 virtual machines per physical server.
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Cons
IBM
  • 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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Oracle
  • Not as flexible as VMware.
  • Could have slightly better templates for provisioning database nodes.
  • In terms of performance it lags a bit behind Red Hat's KVM solution.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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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Oracle
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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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Oracle
The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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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Oracle
  • Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction.
  • We've experienced a lot of outages.
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