Best platform for the mission critical workload IBM POWER9
May 10, 2019

Best platform for the mission critical workload IBM POWER9

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

  • Power9 Servers

Overall Satisfaction with IBM POWER9 Servers

I am working for a company that sells the Power9 solutions to the client
  • Power9 Servers give the flexibility to add more workload with less cores
  • Power9 Servers reduce the software footprint of the client compared to the software required to run the same workload on Intel servers
  • Power9 has a 99.999% uptime and has the RAS features which cannot be matched by any platform in the market
  • Power VM has no vulnerability since 2003
  • AIX is the operating system with minimum vulnerability compared to any other operating system
  • A Robust patching solution is required
  • Shared processor pool for the production workload for SAP HANA
  • Better ROI when looking at database workload
  • Ease of management
Power 9 servers give better flexibility, reduces the software requirement, ease of management, minimum downtime
Power9 Servers are the best fit for the Oracle/DB2 Database workload.
Power9 is the best fit for any ERP workload like SAP / SAP HANA / Oracle ERP. Power9 is best suited for mission critical application