Best Virtual Servers
July 17, 2022

Best Virtual Servers

Kundan Kumar | 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

IBM Power System Virtual Servers are being used in my projects for oracle DB and SAP applications for different work. Our Client has saved lots of costs in the data center to implement the IBM Virtual Server over IBM Power Physical server. We have reduced the total number of physical power servers due to virtual servers.
  • IBM Power Virtual Servers reduce the cost of data center infra structure.
  • We have reduced the number of running Physical Power servers in DC since we start using the Virtual environment.
  • IBM Power Virtual Server provides more flexibility to implement different oOS like Linux, SUSE, AIX, etc in the same power physical server.
  • Performance are excellent.
  • Vendor support is costly.

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

  • Production Business stability are excellent with great performance.
  • Less Business impact due to virtual server uptime.
  • Easy to restore from old backup in case of any server crash.
  • Easy to migrate the storage data from old disk to new disk.
We have reduced the number of vulnerabilities in IBM Power Virtual Servers as we apply for every new patch release. Our system availability and performance have increased after applying every new patch.
We did not face any major issue with IBM Power Virtual Server, in case of any issue we take the IBM support team's help to fix the issue. IBM provides excellent support to fix the problems to bring the server to a healthy state.
IBM Power Virtual Servers are well knowns to manage the heavy load database and applications with high system performance. IBM Virtual Servers provide a more flexible environment where we can run the Linux, SUSE, and AIX in the same Physical servers as per user requirements.

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