PS- IBM Power System Virtual Server
March 04, 2022

PS- IBM Power System Virtual Server

Pradeep Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power Systems Virtual Server on IBM Cloud for AIX/Linux

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power System Virtual Server

In Our Environment, we are running with critical databases and some other important ERP services which are most critical for us. In databases mostly databases are Oracle, DB2, and Sybase. We are running our services over IBM AIX due to its optimal performances in each case like peak hours and in case of some heavy upload it works well.

Pros

  • Easy to Manage
  • Quick Deployment
  • Optimal Performance

Cons

  • Powering on of LPAR option can be added in ASMI
  • HMC GUI Can be enhanced
  • Profile backup kind of option similar to snapshot can be added.

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

  • Centralize Management
  • Quick Deployment
  • Powerful Compute
As I am using IBM Servers for a long time so I am having good experience with it along there is multiple parameters where we have found IBM servers are the better one to run your application with minimal downtime. At the same time it is also an important kind of support you get from OEM in most cases IBM has delivered valuable support in case of need.
Vulnerabilities are the only thing that can be reduced by proper remediation only on a quarterly basis or as per your organization's standard. I recommend here in the provisioning phase make sure to update the latest level of firmware for the frame along with adapter microcode as well as vios level and LPAR running with the current release of OS.
As I said it offers to perform Centralize management using HMC or PowerVC. In HMC itself you have the ESA option if it's already configured in such a case any error will happen at the Frame level get notified by IBM at the same time tickets will get assigned to the engineer to take further action on it.
For me, I would suggest wherever you feel like you are heavy critical applications or databases with huge size where it can be a high-rated transaction on each second always go with IBM servers where you can get optimal performance along with a reliable environment. The good Part is in case of need you can scale resources.

IBM Power Virtual Server Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
9
Monitoring tools
8
Operating system support
10
Security controls
9
Automation
8

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