IBM Power System Virtual Server - Trusted
March 07, 2022

IBM Power System Virtual Server - Trusted

Sunny Singh | 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

Currently, we are using IBM Power Virtual servers for SAP HANA and Oracle databases in both our production and DR site. IBM Power Virtual servers improve the system uptime by 99.9% which helps us in our production business growth.
  • Maximum Uptime improved 99.9%.
  • Quick Deployment and configuration from HMC.
  • Easily add or remove resources like CPU and memory into virtual servers from HMC.
  • High Performance during peak business hours.
  • LPAR Profile backup.
  • HMC GUI Should be more enhanced.

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

  • IBM Power server deliver an excellent business outcome.
  • Maximum system uptime 99.9 %.
  • System response very fast.
  • High Performance during main business hours easily manage the workload.
IBM provides regular security updates and ensures we keep secure user data in servers. We easily can restore the data in case of anything happen with the system. We follow the business standard to remediate the vulnerability.
IBM Power System virtual server provides a simple user interface and CLI mode to manage and configure it. we can deploy the virtual server with a few hours of training. IBM Power servers provide the ability to manage and scale up and down the system resource as per demand.
I would always recommend based on my experience for heavy critical applications and databases with huge data sizes where millions of operations will run in each second always going with IBM Power Virtual servers. We easily can deploy and configure the virtual server with the required resources with help of HMC.

IBM Power Virtual Server Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
10
Monitoring tools
10
Pre-defined machine images
10
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10
Automation
10