Server virtualization with IBM PowerVM

The virtualization platform for UNIX, Linux and IBM i clients

Power is server virtualization without limits. Businesses are turning to PowerVM server virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for AIX, i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

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Highlights

  • Deliver services with superior economics by consolidating virtualized workloads
  • Deliver services faster by automating deployment of virtual machines and storage
  • Optimize utilization of server and storage resources to control cost and boost ROI
  • Scale your virtualized deployments without paying underlying performance penalties
  • Eliminate scheduled downtime by deploying live mobility between servers
  • Deliver higher quality services by improving virtual resource management

Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage and administrative resources. Such complexity leads to inefficiency. The answer is virtualization, which allows organizations to consolidate multiple operating systems and software stacks on a single platform.

PowerVM® provides the industrial-strength virtualization solution for IBM Power Systems™ servers and blades. Based on more than a decade of evolution and innovation, PowerVM represents the state of the art in enterprise virtualization and is broadly deployed in production environments worldwide by most Power Systems owners.

The IBM Power Systems family of servers includes proven1 workload consolidation platforms that help clients control costs while improving overall performance, availability and energy efficiency. With these servers and IBM PowerVM virtualization solutions, an organization can consolidate large numbers of applications and servers, fully virtualize its system resources, and provide a more flexible, dynamic IT infrastructure. In other words, IBM Power Systems with PowerVM deliver the benefits of virtualization without limits.

PowerVM provides industrial-strength virtualization for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux environments on IBM POWER® processor-based systems. IBM Power Systems servers integrated with PowerVM technology are designed to allow clients to build a dynamic infrastructure that will help them to reduce costs, manage risk and improve service levels.

PowerVM also offers a secure and resilient virtualization environment, built on the advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) features, extreme scalability and leadership performance2 of the IBM Power Systems platform, based on the outstanding POWER7® processors.

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    PowerVM takes on VMware

    Edison Group - PowerVM delivers up to 525% better performance

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1 PowerVM Case Studies: ibm.com/systems/power/success/index.html
2 Power Systems benchmark results: ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/benchmarks/index.html

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