IBM Power System S914 Reviews

In my experience as a technology consultant and IT solutions vendor, many projects we undertake that involve digital image processing and in-house georeferencing mechanisms require a considerable amount of processing. For these scenarios, our infrastructure sales department recommends IBM Power Systems S914 servers as one of its options because they have a very good cost / benefit ratio.

We are a value-add reseller and service provider, and so we spend a lot of time investigating new and exciting technologies so that we can share them with our clients, and support their implementation there. We have run a lot of different workloads and benchmarks on the Power S914 with some fantastic results seen, especially in the field of large open-source databases.

Our Power System platforms houses our corporate ERP package which is utilized across our organization daily by approx. 300 users at different locations. Power systems has a proven itself to be a robust, stable and reliable platform with little to no hardware issues in the approx 7 years of usage.

IBM Power 9 is the latest and greatest Power System running IBM i. We operate below the application layer so as an IBM Business Partner supply, install and maintain this server for ourselves and for our clients. We use it as a test bed for Client Disaster Recovery testing, running operating system upgrade and ptf testing. It is primarily used by our Power Systems department. The S914 is very reliable with built in resilience and redundancy across many of it's components. For example the system can lose 2 disks and still continue to operate. The failed component can be changed while the system continues to run so no down time. It's brilliant.

The IBM Power Systems S914 was an easy-to-configure server that helped alleviate the loads we were seeing on the previous server. The multiple configuration options allowed us to size it for 10% bigger than needed but did waste a ton of money on additional power that would be wasted. The clients who are currently hosted on the IBM Power Systems S914 have seen significant improvement in performance. We will be purchasing more.

When setting up the system it setups easily and without issue. It is also runs on the quite side for more servers if that is an issue for you, you'll be pleased with this choice. It may be a bit pricy for a small business, but any medium to large would be done well with this product.

IBM Power Systems is our primary IT management platform. We've used it in conjunction with our high-speed servers in efforts to reduce increased lag times we've dealt with in recent years, as our company has grown. In a word, the main business problem has consisted of growing pains. The flexible consumption feature is extra helpful, as our server usage varies widely depending on seasonality.

The S914 is used to run our ERP system (MAPICS) on IBMi. We run multiple logical partitions (LPARs), leveraging PowerVM Enterprise and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS). Running an IBMi-only ERP system severely limits our hardware options, but the Power9 platform is the best I've run it on yet.

We use the IBM Power Systems S914 to run SAP HANA for our department's application. Using this combination of hardware and software, we were able to achieve performance improvements of 1000X (not 1000 percent) but 1000 times faster from our prior configuration of a traditional RDBMS on unix. We use this configuration to solve complex mathematical queries that require large aggregations and other computations.