Once you power on, you will never power off
September 15, 2021

Once you power on, you will never power off

Ertan Mecihan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Power System S922
  • Power System S924

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power

It is being used for business-critical apps and for core banking. Due to high CPU performance and the ability for NPIV, it provides very good performance. Our current core banking database is running on [IBM] Power [System] S924 and its uptime is over 400 days. The ability to patch kernel without restart of AIX is totally [an] enterprise thing. We are using powerHA with twin Power S924s and I don't remember if we ever had any performance issues or any problems with these machines.
  • NPIV providing virtual FC to lpars.
  • 8 parallel processing CPUs is like a monster.
  • Very low latency.
  • Once you power on the machine, you will never power it off it again, very stable.
  • When one of the CPU electric providers is broken, the whole machine stops. There are 2 CPUs that shouldn't affect the whole machine. Not sure if it is possible but would be good.
  • Better performance with HMC, especially on network configuration.
  • Having its own management console or SSH console. So managing without HMC.
  • Only for Oracle DB licenses, we saved up to 50%.
  • When you have a performance machine, you save from application licenses that are based on CPUs.
IBM Power System S924 has a CPU with 8 parallel processing, which is double from power 7 and 8. Also, it has much more performance. By upgrading our IBM Power Machines we saved money from licenses and we got much more performance. Also, IBM Power [System] s924 supports little endian LA, which provides you more OS support.

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

Yes

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?

Yes

For Oracle DB I don't think that there is a better machine that you can use. It saves costs from Oracle licenses and gives you the best performance with it. But, in my country, IBM doesn't provide good support [from my experience]. It is a bit difficult to have machines and not to have good support for enterprise companies.