IBM Power Virtual Server Reviews & Ratings 2025

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Overview

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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The best one for remote access

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 9, 2025

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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...

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Engineer

1 year of experience

I like IBM Power Virtual Systems

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 25, 2025

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we have 2 power servers with high available definition most off our distributed applications are running on it

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Administrator

26 years of experience

Impact of IBM power system on business

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 23, 2025

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IBM Power Virtual Server is used in many ways in our organisation to address different use cases like disaster recovery and business continuity plan to make sure that we have ...

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2 years of experience

Best product experience

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 19, 2025

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It [IBM Power System Virtual Server] is really helpful in terms of supporting Tosto which we used for nearly 8 months. It helps in reducing the effort while copying the data a...

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Former Employee

1 year of experience

IBM Power Virtual Server gives you power to run

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 25, 2025

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We have some workloads that are hybrid in nature and IBM Power Virtual Servers help us in managing Linux workloads on it seamlessly without having to change our code. This has...

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3 years of experience

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How IBM Power Virtual Server Differs From Its Competitors

IBM Power Virtual Server offers several valuable capabilities. The ability to deploy virtual servers (LPARs) within minutes provides exceptional agility. The flexible pay-as-you-use billing model helps optimize costs while allowing you to scale on demand. I appreciate the seamless workload …

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Server has revolutionized our operations. We now deploy LPARs in minutes rather than months and only pay for resources we use. The platform lets us connect our critical Power workloads with cloud services without rewriting applications—something previously impossible. Our disaster recovery …

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Mobile Accessibility

I have been personally used IBM Power Virtual Server’s mobile integration, but its ability to provide on-the-go analytics and dashboard access is a key advantage for users who need real-time insights. Mobile accessibility can enhance decision-making speed, enabling users to monitor performance, …

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Most Valuable Capabilities

Hybrid Cloud Integration - It allows businesses to extend their on-prem IBM Power Systems into the cloud without needing to re-platform. Integration with IBM Cloud Ecosystem like Object Storage, VPN, logging. It makes building secure, scalable, and fully managed hybrid environments easier. You can …

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Achievements Enabled

The capabilities of IBM Power Virtual Server unlock quite a few things that were either difficult, expensive, or downright impossible in traditional on-prem Power environments. You can use PowerVS as a cost-effective DR target with replication from your on-prem systems. You can deploy workloads in …

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Mobile Accessibility

IBM Power Virtual Server’s mobile integration for on-the-go analytics and dashboards, you are tapping into a capability that is pretty underrated but growing in values especially for operations, support, and exec-level visibility. Custom dashboards built with Grafana or Kibana (integrated with IBM …

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Most Valuable Capabilities

As I shared it is all about the hybrid Linux environment that we get along with the rest of the IBM offerings to run our workloads. This enables us to offer services basis our existing infrastructure without having to add more cost and time in building new things to keep the app running.

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Running parallel hybrid Linux workloads with existing infrastructure running on bare-metal hardware. This also adds to the overall management from a single interface and giving team and management a lot more confidence to Scale up the systems without adding more cost in development of new …

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Pricing

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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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Setup fee optional

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Product Demos

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.9

Avg 8.2

9.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
(189) Ratings
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
8.9
Dynamic scaling
(188) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
9.5
Elastic load balancing
(185) Ratings
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
9.6
Pre-configured templates
(184) Ratings
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
8
Monitoring tools
(188) Ratings
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
9.5
Pre-defined machine images
(185) Ratings
Range of different server configurations available
9.1
Operating system support
(187) Ratings
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
8.5
Security controls
(186) Ratings
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
7.8
Automation
(163) Ratings
Automation of administrative tasks

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What is IBM Power Virtual Server?

IBM® Power® Systems clients who have typically relied upon on-premises-only infrastructure can extend their Power IT resources onto IBM Power Systems Virtual Server to avoid the large capital expense or added risk when migrating essential workloads.

IBM Power Systems Virtual Server are colocated and connected with IBM Cloud®, integrating IBM AIX® and IBM i capabilities. The solution boasts fast, self-service provisioning, flexible management both on premises and off premises, and access to a stack of enterprise IBM Cloud services — with pay-as-you-use billing so users can more easily scale up and out.