Item: IBM Power Virtual Server
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Power Virtual Server Provides High Availability with Excellent Performance. It is known to manage the heavy load database and applications with high system performance. IBM Virtual Servers provide a more flexible environment where we can run Linux, SUSE, and AIX in the same Physical servers as per user requirements.

Pros and Cons

Impressive resource scalability of IBM power virtual server.
The need for Physical servers has been reduced in Datacenter which helped in cost reduction.
OS configuration is have become much easier and so as restore OS backup.
High availability and reliability.
High Performance.

Some of the automation tool needs improvement.
Vendor support is felt costly when the infra is comparatively smaller.

Key Insights

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

Return on Investment

OS Configuration have become much easier.
Storage migration have become easy from old disk to new disk.
Impressive resource scalability with IBM power virtual server.
High Performance, High availability and reliability.
Less Business impact.

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Microsoft Windows

IBM Power Virtual Server is very cost-efficient, movement flexible, and easy to use and maintain.

Security

Yes, it has definitely helped us in terms of security. We get patch updates regularly from IBM, and this has improved our data availability. We have also overcome vulnerabilities because of the IBM Power System Virtual Server. We haven't felt so confident with Microsoft Windows or RHEL.

Usability

1. I love to use the command line for administration tasks. 2. Helps reduce costs by avoiding unnecessary tasks. 3. The management of infrastructure have become efficient with a reduction in incident.

Other Software Used

IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli NetCool/OMNIbus, IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Power System Virtual Server is used in our organization to lower the risk of our data loss because of its high performance and availability. It is a cost-effective system with good scalability that helps us run multiple applications and database workloads. Our Client has saved a lot in the data center to implement the Virtual Server over the Physical server.

IBM Power Virtual Server - one of the best product in market.

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power Virtual Server