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Unleash the IBM Power servers
September 25, 2023

Unleash the IBM Power servers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Power9 Servers
  • Power System E980

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power servers

  • Host up to 32TB Virtual Machine
  • Redundancy out of the box
  • Works seamless with existing datacenter network and storage
  • Lower the costs
  • Lack of Support for all Linux and older versions too

Do you think IBM Power servers delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with IBM Power servers's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Power servers live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Power servers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Power servers again?

No

  • Met target delivery architecture
  • Binds easily with other equipment in the data center already, no need for new network and storage infra
  • Unable to run for long due to costs, ROI is slow
We did not try any other similar offering.
I'd strongly recommend IBM Power servers to anyone who has the budget for it. A Power Virtual Machine, what is generally called FlexTB VM, can support as many small VM of 256GB, and scale up to 32TB on the fly. If IBM recommended architecture is combined with your organizational reference architecture, then forget about running into unplanned downtimes.

Using IBM Power servers

100 - Datacenter management, Tools Development & Integration, Hosting, Operations and Application / Database Users.
  • Large Memory Virtual Machines
  • High Availability
  • Ease of Integration with existing DC Infra

Evaluating IBM Power servers and Competitors

  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
"Scalability" was the single most important factor to us. We wanted to scale up the virtual machines to large/er/est memory possible and IBM Power servers made this possible.
We wouldn't change the evaluation process if we were to do it again.

IBM Power servers Implementation

Integration with Datacenter was somewhat easy, Integration with tools/platforms was difficult.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes - Trial Phase
DC Infra Integration
Tool Integration
Operations
Scale Geographically
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled

IBM Power servers Support

Our Datacenter management teams take care of managing hardware support, issues and tracking.
ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Quick Initial Response
Need to explain problems multiple times
I was not involved in the discussion regarding support categories.

Using IBM Power servers

IBM Power allows us to host and scale up to 32TB of Virtual Machine (VM). We were earlier limited to 12TB per single VM, and could only scale-out (or horizontally). Since some of our solutions are extensively memory intensive, we wanted to host larger VM.We are SAP only shop, given some SAP solutions are memory intensive and some industries need to exploit 'memory intensive' IBM Power was the only choice to scale architecture beyond 12TB memory with support for High Availability design as well! This has drastically improved the time we had to spend on optimizing the applications, solution and database.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Lots to learn
  • Hardware Management Console
  • High Availability
  • Memory Upgrades on the fly
  • Integration with internal tools was difficult and took some time