IBM Power System Virtual Server will rock your world!
August 09, 2021

IBM Power System Virtual Server will rock your world!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Software Version

Power Systems Virtual Server on IBM Cloud for IBMi

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power System Virtual Server

IBM Power System Virtual Server is being used across our entire enterprise. It's being used to host our LINUX Virtual Machines to run applications that support our business process. It solves the business need to prevent having to spin up dedicated servers for each application, thus allowing our datacenter footprint to decrease. This gives us cost savings on backend hardware.

Pros

  • Easy to provision VM's for each application.
  • Each VM has it's own dedicated space and does not overlap with other VM's.
  • Can easily increase/decrease VM space and processing power to accommodate application needs.

Cons

  • Some of the documentation is very dense to read and understand.
  • This product is not for beginning users. Learning curve is relatively steep.
  • I'd like to see more work done on the user interface. It's not intuitive as I'd like it to be.

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

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Power Virtual Server's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Power Virtual Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Power Virtual Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Power Virtual Server again?

Yes

  • Able to decrease our datacenter footprint with this product by reducing the number of physical servers.
  • Ability to upscale our Virtual Machines to conform with existing server requests and capacity.
  • Provides staff with hand-on learning opportunities which increase overall staff moral and well-being.
My organization looked at both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure before selecting the IBM Power System Virtual Server. We felt that IBM had a leg up on both of those services because it was easier to use and configure from our observation. IBM also provided better support to us during our evaluation phase. So that's a few reasons we went with IBM.
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IBM Power System Virtual Server is well suited for business needs where the need exists for virtual servers. It is easy to configure and increase/decrease the size of the actual Virtual Machine. This allows the Virtual Machine to expand and/or contract as necessary to fit current business needs. As your business grows, more processing power can be added to the Virtual Machine quite easily.

I would say this product would not be useful to small businesses where they can host their own applications. The learning curve for this product is there and it's relatively steep if you don't know what you are doing.

IBM Power Virtual Server Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.2
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
8
Security controls
8
Automation
7

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