IBM Power Virtual Server

Score9.4 out of 10

315 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM Power Virtual Server?

IBM presents their Power Systems Virtual Server as a scalable, cost-effective way to run IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux workloads.

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service

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Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 9
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 8
Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 8.4

Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.7
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.6
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.7

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using IBM Power Virtual Server.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

25.0%

3 installations of 12

#2 most frequent

Public Administration

16.7%

2 installations of 12

#3 most frequent

Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services

8.3%

1 installation of 12

Pros

Robust reliability and consistent uptime for critical applications.
High performance with rapid processors and efficient data encryption.
Scalability to support business growth and expanding operations.

Cons

High cost of licenses.
User interface lacks agility and responsiveness.
GUI can be laggy, with some users preferring command-line functions.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's quite useful in terms of providing support for a service that we used for about seven months. It lowered the effort required to conduct tasks and copy data. Its AI is the most important, as the decisions made are truly authentic and more efficient at work. It's one of the most impressive IBM products I've ever seen. That's very incredible.

Pros

Accuracy
Reliability

Cons

Low latency
Fast when compared to other virtual power systems[.]

Return on Investment

Low battery
Good Services and performance[.]

Alternatives Considered

Alibaba Cloud Simple Application Server

Other Software Used

IBM AIX, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Azure Virtual Machines

Usability

Deepak C Shetty

Sales Enablement Lead in Engineering at IBM (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I provide enablement on IBM Power Virtual Server and as part of it use the product a lot

Pros

spin power VSIs
provide the same power stack as on prem
integrates well with other IBM cloud services

Cons

In my opinion, IBM Power Virtual Server has room for improvement because the UI is laggy
I thinks there is room for improvement with IBM Power Virtual Server because the network config is complex

Return on Investment

easily migrate to cloud
laggy UI gives a bad UX

Ankur Jain View profile

Director Information and Technology in Sales at Zyne Solutions PVT. LTD. (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are IBM partners and position IBM Products to our customers

Pros

DR on cloud
IBM I on cloud

Cons

GUI restoration of millions of files from long term archiving to archiving tear. We backup data to cloud in object and storage and move it to then long term archiving
IBM PowerVs profile changes for HANA DB, we want to use non certified profile while PowerVS instance is used as cold DR only for replciaaiton and change it to certified profile once we spin up DR as produciton

Return on Investment

Uptime is increased
hassel free in terms of handling on-prem power
need to have good sale support from IBM
Need to have more improvement in GUI d=functions rather commands

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use IBM Power Virtual Server as our platform to host our financial software, allscripts AMPFM

Pros

Reliability
scalibility
uptime
support

Cons

barrier to entry
cost
learning curve

Return on Investment

In our experience, IBM Power Virtual Server reliability has kept uptime at a high

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows

Usability

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an IBM BP and we already successfully migrated several customers to IBM Power Virtual Server.

Pros

Resilience
Flexibility
PErformance

Cons

Please remove the 24 hours timeout for the image exports
Provide, if possible, a way to move images from one workspace to another
Increase the limit of 10TB for images captures/exports to Cloud Object Storage

Return on Investment

Regulators Compliance
Increased uptime
Flexibility

Alternatives Considered

IBM Power, IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and IBM PowerVM

Other Software Used

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror, IBM PowerVM, Storware Backup and Recovery

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Microsoft Azure

Google Compute Engine

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