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What is IBM PowerVM?
IBM PowerVM provides a server virtualization environment.
Power VM - a powerful tool for a multi tenant hosting environment
IBMs PowerVM powers up your IT infrastructure
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What is IBM PowerVM?
IBM PowerVM provides a server virtualization environment.
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(1-4 of 4)- IBM PowerVM is used for virtualization on IBM Power series hardware to utilize the hardware resources more efficiently like micro partitioning for CPU, NPIV for fibre port...etc
- IBM PowerVM provides the feature of live partitioning mobility (LPM), which allows moving the running virtual machine from one hardware to another hardware without any disruption on a virtual machine.
- IBM Power VM provides the feature of Integrated virtual manager (IVM), which helps to manage the single IBM Power hardware. There is no need to purchase a separate hardware management console to manage the Power hardware. This works well for small organizations having small environments.
- The IBM PowerVM works only on Power processors, it should be also available for Intel processors.
- IBM PowerVM is still managed through the command line to perform administration tasks. IBM PowerVM needs to be managed through Graphical Interface so that users can perform the task more easily.
- In IBM PowerVM, padmin and root commands are different for the same task. It's a bit confusing and difficult to remember.
- Virtual machine automated provisioning
- 70%7.0
- Management console
- 60%6.0
- Live virtual machine migration
- 80%8.0
- Hypervisor-level security
- 90%9.0
- IBM PowerVM is the best solution for the big organization having critical applications. Return wise, it's the best product.
- IBM PowerVM helps to save the application licensing cost by assigning one CPU to multiple virtual machines (micro-partitioning).
- IBM PowerVM provides many good features like LPM, shared-processor pool ...etc which provides a lot of flexibility at the VM level and helps to save the hardware cost.
Power VM - a powerful tool for a multi tenant hosting environment
- Offers a very granular virtualization of each core.
- Provides a quick and easy environment to build and maintain.
- Is rock solid and provides a reliable production environment.
- The ability to run Windows. Hardware architecture does not allow this, but it is a limiting factor.
- More performance monitoring and management could be built in.
- Sometimes is marketed and packaged in some rather unusual ways
- Virtual machine automated provisioning
- 90%9.0
- Management console
- 90%9.0
- Live virtual machine backup
- 90%9.0
- Live virtual machine migration
- 90%9.0
- Hypervisor-level security
- 90%9.0
- Allows for very quick and efficient host provisioning.
- Extremely stable. Does not create any downtime.
- Provides an excellent blend for IBM OS's[.]
- Maintaining a multi tentant hosting environment.
- Providing a base for customer on prem systems.
- Support of remote system management and managed services.
- Offering a quick test bed for independent programmers.
- Offering a safe and secure testing environment for large application testing.
- Providing a means to test performance, version upgrades and other type of activities without impacting a live environment
- An increase use of Red Hat.
- A means to test other potential software products.
- Offeering as a base for both internal and external training.
IBMs PowerVM powers up your IT infrastructure
- IBM PowerVM is reliable and fully redundant with no single points of failure
- Once it is set up, there is not a lot of maintenance that needs to be done on it
- It gives you a lot flexibility by using features like LPM
- While it does not happen often, when there is a problem it affects everything
- The commands between padmin and root should be more in sync with each other
- It can be tricky to set up at first
- Virtual machine automated provisioning
- N/AN/A
- Management console
- 70%7.0
- Live virtual machine backup
- N/AN/A
- Live virtual machine migration
- N/AN/A
- Hypervisor-level security
- 90%9.0
- We are able to run several LPARs on one frame, which means we do not need to buy as many physical servers. That saves on floor space, power, and heating and cooling of the data center, among other things.
- Using LPM allows us to do maintenance on a frame without impacting the LPARs, giving us greater uptime.
PowerVM Review
- PowerVM does the best job of allocating cores to VMs and allowing configuration to which you can prioritize VMs and allow VMs to borrow from shared pools.
- PowerVM allows one to configure VMs to optimum software licensing needs.
- PowerVM provides insight to specific VM performance and utilization.
- We have yet to upgrade VIOs from 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 which will provide the more GUI centric management, however, making the VIO servers easier to manage would be one area. I think this is done with the latest versions of HMC and PowerVM.
- More real-time and historical performance reporting.
PowerVM is well suited for virtual machines that need access to high performance and reliability.
It may be over engineered for smaller applications. However, if the infrastructure is in place you can utilize it to run Linux VMs as well.
- Virtual machine automated provisioning
- N/AN/A
- Management console
- 100%10.0
- Live virtual machine backup
- N/AN/A
- Live virtual machine migration
- 100%10.0
- Hypervisor-level security
- 100%10.0
- It has provided the performance we need during month end and year end closing cycles.
- It has been very reliable with little to no downtime.
- We have been able to stretch our IT dollars because the refresh rate on IBM Power can run for years. Also, we have been able to add many more VMs to physical machines than other platforms can run.