IBM Power System Virtual Server will rock your world!
August 09, 2021
IBM Power System Virtual Server will rock your world!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Data availability has increase since we started using Power Systems. We have had almost no downtime at all in our use of Power Systems. It has help us ensure that our business processes and data are available to both our internal and external customers. This has allowed us to focus on our business rather than our computing needs.
IBM Power System Virtual Server has helped us avoid user errors by tightly integrating it's functionality into one easy to use interface. This interface, once you get past the obvious learning curve that any new piece of software has, is used to configure the Virtual Machines and is really powerful. I've used to provision new Virtual Machines and I can get them up in running relatively quickly and efficiently.