IBM Power Virtual Server

Score9.3 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

Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.9
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.7
Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 8.2

Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.6
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.6
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.5

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees 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 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

Deepak C Shetty

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

Asad Naeem

Business Development Manager in Corporate at ENCYPHERS (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use IBM Power Virtual Server as it helps to manage my digital workload across multiple businesses and projects in the cloud and it is also great for application development and data encryption.

Pros

the servers are reliable and secure
the speed of the processors and data encryption performance is just outstanding

Cons

it doesn’t have a agile and interactive interface
the cost of licenses is really high
sometimes it freezes completely, when I have other programs running

Return on Investment

gives protection
it's helped modernize my applications and streamline business tasks without needing extra platforms
with its storage and automation features, I've cut down time spent on repetitive work significantly

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Azure Analysis Services, Db2, DocASAP

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Google Compute Engine

IBM Power Virtual Server

What is IBM Power Virtual Server?

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Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Pre-defined machine images

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Security controls

Monitoring tools

Automation

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