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What is IBM Power servers?
The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.
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What is IBM Power servers?
IBM Power
servers are designed for the most demanding, data-intensive computing imaginable, while keeping the business protected.
IBM offers Power10 processor-based servers, available in scale-out or scale-up variants.
The vendor promises the following benefits and differentiators:
Delivered with security
Power servers have security built in at all layers, from the processor to the OS to deliver an integrated end-to-end security solution
Enterprise cloud-ready
Power servers integrate into organizations' private or hybrid cloud strategy to handle flexible consumption models and changing customer needs.
Reliability
Boasts strong rankings in every major reliability category by ITIC*, IBM Power
servers aim to deliver the reliable on-premises infrastructure to meet
around-the-clock customer demands.
Value and performance
Power servers boast superior core
performance and memory bandwidth to deliver both performance and
price-performance advantages.
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IBM Power servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Linux, AIX, IBM i |
| Mobile Application | No |
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The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.
Dell PowerEdge R, HPE ProLiant DL, and Supermicro Twin are common alternatives for IBM Power servers.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of IBM Power servers are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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August 19, 2022
IBM Power Servers
- stability
- functionality
- virtualization
- better virtualization information and tools, from within the lpar
- cost
- IBM support usually takes several hours or days to help
August 19, 2022
Power systems for a power review
- Reliable
- Efficient
- User friendly
- It’s expensive
- It has to have cloud ready
- To be able to use it for smaller chunks
August 19, 2022
Price, Performance and Predictability....Second to None!
- Batch performance is outstanding
- Data integrity is second to none.
- Database maintenance requires less time and effort than other platforms.
- Object security is the best in the industry.
- Hardware reliability is excellent.
- Increase visibility to options and configurations on the systems
- Decrease the cost for additional OS licenses.
August 16, 2022
It’s name says it all: processing POWER!!
Support of ibm I workloads in a single server. It’s processing power and virtualization features allow dynamic resource sharing between lpars and there are less hw to maintain. We currently have 4 production lpars sharing processing power.
- Performance
- Processing power
- Cost
July 19, 2022
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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- IBM Power servers provide the hybrid cloud solution.
- Easy to migrate the OS version in IBM Power servers as per need.
- High Security feature in every new patch release by IBM.
- Easy to operate the Physical IBM Power servers from HMC console.
- IBM could improve the GUI of the server.
- Skill are required to use and run the IBM Power servers.
July 19, 2022
IBM Power servers known as a highly secure system
- We can boot the IBM Power servers with SAN disk and save the Physical SAS Control cost in the physical server.
- Powerful IBM Power9 Processor with high processing speed.
- We can configure the Virtual environment in Power servers and reduce the cost of infrastructure.
- Easy to migrate the Virtual in other IBM Power servers online with help of LPM.
- IBM Power servers does not support the Window OS.
- Vendor support is costly.
July 18, 2022
Powerful Servers
- System Uptime and performance.
- Easy to apply the new Hardware patch to make more secure the system.
- IBM Power servers allow us to create the virtual environment to reduce the cost of DC.
- IBM Power servers provide the more flexible environment for clients to run different OS on the same physical server.
- Product cost are too high as compare to other vendor servers.
- Window OS does not support to run.
- Environments for cloud and cognitive computing are well suited for the IBM Power Systems S922 server.
- The systems' critical data is gathered by IBM Electronics, which then uses it to produce insightful reports on the deployed hardware and software.
- The Microsoft Windows OS is not better connected to IBM Power servers.
- Costs for IBM Power servers are exorbitant and out of reach for small businesses.
- Up time
- Speed
- Easily Patch updates.
- Easy OS upgrades.
- Security
- I would like IBM Power Systems to make the GUI better. I like the GUI but it is still missing certain aspects.
- It results in a considerably more productive workplace.
- Provides a fantastic platform for previously physical servers.
- Transitioning from physical to virtual for complex systems can take a long time.
- Depending on how difficult the conversion is, the cost of converting current systems may rise.
June 07, 2022
IBM Power servers - A powerful processor
- The finest operating system
- The security system is fantastic.
- The initial investment is substantial.
- GUI can be improved
May 18, 2022
From as/400 to iSeries to Power systems running IBM I--the platform just keeps getting better!
- Data Mirror
- cloud services
- high availabilty
- ability to scale the hardware based on needs
- Better spool file handling
- Keeping the faith with the older generation of users IE the green screen for IBM I
- Better support for legacy hardware. There are so many businesses still using outdated hardware and ora. They do this because, even though it is old and dated, they are STILL great!
May 17, 2022
Magical Power System
- Fast data processing
- Almost Malware free
- Can handle large volume
- Minimum code for doing the job
- Good support from IBM
- Missing many built in function
- Can make multi linguistic
- Should improve the support of other programming languages
May 17, 2022
Power Systems-Best of Breed.
- The systems are physically able to keep the systems operating and producing.
- The AIX operating system is stable and secure both Firmware and Software.
- IBM Power servers support many applications for the customer re: Oracle, DB2, and many Power grid systems.
- Trained administrators, the cost to benefit is notable.
- Need to follow the Main Frame approach to manage IBM Power servers.
- Working with third party resellers is important.
- The information gleaned from the report is a valuable tool for commercial intelligence, helping to prevent financial losses.
- Has a significant capacity for safety.
- Reliability and availability round the clock.
- Speed of I/O.
- In the hospital course, I think that in our case the number of sockets offered is not enough per contracted load, this should be expanded per contracted unit.
- The support of the program needs more training because they don't know everything as they should for programs as critical as this one.
- Outside of IBM, it's difficult to get help.
- Power System S924 operating system is a long time in the past
- NVMe capacity has really exceeded our expectations for meeting targets.
- Full PCIe Gen4 architecture has been enough and I think that with a greater range of capacity.
- Excellent UI/UX.
- System Cache is compatible with a number of industry-mandated applications.
- Data recovery is a difficult task.
- I believe that the platform is a little expensive for entry-level solutions.
- Migration is difficult even for experienced teams, and it becomes even more difficult when dealing with large amounts of data.
- The high number of CPU threads available in modern hyperscale systems is ideal.
- From a performance standpoint, the platform is outstanding.
- A variety of backup options are available to ensure the security of operating data.
- It's quite quick.
- It is quite simple to handle.
- The first version we tried lost some details or information, I think this is due to unstable connections.
- Socks for the industry are desperately needed, and more PCI ports are lacking.
- The privacy options are engaged automatically, which is a pain to deal with.
- The workflow functionality, which is supposed to spin up multiple concurrent Docker images for text execution, does not reliably feedback the results statistics.
May 10, 2022
Top help with IBM Power servers.
- Flexible
- Astonishingly stable system, I might add. There is almost never any downtime.
- With PowerVM, you may run a virtual machine.
- Contact to support should be improved.
- Np inside the control command should be improved and also extended.
- Vios via PowerVM has to be made more user-friendly.
- How sturdy and reliable this system is.
- The most powerful computers currently on the market.
- This technology allows for the development of new languages.
- Systemic stability.
- In the beginning, you'll need a lot of money.
- Compatibility with external storage.
- The number of PCI slots is restricted.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- I like the robustness and the extra reliability that the program and the environment give to the clients that we have or to the recruits.
- Our web application is being deployed in a high-performance, secure cloud environment thanks to an IBM virtual cloud server.
- It's safe to say that the system's database is in perfect working order.
- We think that the cost is too much for the beginning since too much time is wasted implementing it or learning how to use it.
- Engineers take too long to install.
- The servers will occasionally go down.
April 19, 2022
Most powerful physical server
- IBM Power Servers provide the Hybrid Cloud solution for different applications.
- IBM Power Servers allow us to create more than one virtual server and run the different operating systems on the same physical server like AIX, Linux, Suse Linux and IBMi, etc.
- IBM Power Servers provide better flexibility to manage and utilize physical resources like CPU, Memory and adapters. Easily we can scale up and scale down, also we can move it from one virtual server to another online.
- IBM Power Servers costs are high and not manageable for a small organization.
- IBM Power Servers does not have the better connectivity with Microsoft Windows OS.
April 10, 2022
The server is stable but I think it can improve.
- The IBM Power Systems S922 server is well-suited for cloud and cognitive computing environments.
- Adapt to a variety of varying workloads.
- IBM Electronics collects vital data from the systems to provide valuable reports on installed hardware and software.
- There are too few PCI slots.
April 10, 2022
High Performance know as IBM Power Server
- IBM Power Servers provide the advanced virtualization with high security feature
- IBM Power Servers provide the ability to create the different virtual servers with the different operating systems in the same physical server
- IBM Power Servers are easy to manage from HMC
- IBM Hardware support are costly
- User must have experience to use the IBM Power Server
April 10, 2022
IBM Power servers are the superb
- Operating system is best
- Security system is awesome
- System monitoring and control using HMc
- Starting cost is high
- GUI can be improved
April 08, 2022
Transaction smoothly
IBM Power System S922 is currently used in my company for SAP and other production environments to manage the heavy workload to get the high business productivity.
- High System Performance to mange the heavy workload
- It provides the highly security feature
- Training is needed to manage [the] Initial configuration
- Very Costly