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IBM Power Virtual Server

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What is IBM Power Virtual Server?

IBM presents their Power Systems Virtual Server as a scalable, cost-effective way to run IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux workloads​.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Power Virtual Server has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.6

  • Elastic load balancing

    Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers

    Category average: 8.5

  • Security controls

    Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Monitoring tools

    Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

    Category average: 7.9

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.2

  • Automation

    Automation of administrative tasks

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Power Virtual Server.
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IBM Power Virtual Server review

Incentivized
Deepak C Shetty
Sales Enablement Lead in Engineering at IBM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I provide enablement on IBM Power Virtual Server and as part of it use the product a lot

Pros

  • spin power VSIs
  • provide the same power stack as on prem
  • integrates well with other IBM cloud services

Cons

  • UI is laggy
  • network config is complex

Return on Investment

  • easily migrate to cloud
  • laggy UI gives a bad UX

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Incentivized
Ankur JainView profile
Director Information and Technology in Sales at Zyne Solutions PVT. LTD. (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are IBM partners and position IBM Products to our customers

Pros

  • DR on cloud
  • IBM I on cloud

Cons

  • GUI restoration of millions of files from long term archiving to archiving tear. We backup data to cloud in object and storage and move it to then long term archiving
  • IBM PowerVs profile changes for HANA DB, we want to use non certified profile while PowerVS instance is used as cold DR only for replciaaiton and change it to certified profile once we spin up DR as produciton

Return on Investment

  • Uptime is increased
  • hassel free in terms of handling on-prem power
  • need to have good sale support from IBM
  • Need to have more improvement in GUI d=functions rather commands

IBM Power Virtual Server Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an IBM BP and we already successfully migrated several customers to IBM Power Virtual Server.

Pros

  • Resilience
  • Flexibility
  • PErformance

Cons

  • Please remove the 24 hours timeout for the image exports
  • Provide, if possible, a way to move images from one workspace to another
  • Increase the limit of 10TB for images captures/exports to Cloud Object Storage

Return on Investment

  • Regulators Compliance
  • Increased uptime
  • Flexibility

Alternatives Considered

IBM Power, IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and IBM PowerVM

Other Software Used

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror, IBM PowerVM, Storware Backup and Recovery

Okay

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Financial data management with healthcare partners. It is our primary system that all downstream hardware receives data from.

Pros

  • Speed
  • Support
  • Reliability

Cons

  • Cost
  • ease of use
  • Support

Return on Investment

  • Uptime
  • Speed
  • Lacks SMEs

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Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Power Virtual Server as our platform to host our financial software, allscripts AMPFM

Pros

  • Reliability
  • scalibility
  • uptime
  • support

Cons

  • barrier to entry
  • cost
  • learning curve

Return on Investment

  • reliability has kept uptime at a high

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows

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