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Product Name	PowerVM	PowerVM	PowerVM
Company	IBM	IBM	IBM
Edition Edition usually indicates the intended user group of the software	Express Edition	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition
Product Description	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	For users ready to get the full value out of their server, IBM offers PowerVM Standard Edition providing the most complete virtualization functionality for AIX®, IBM i and Linux® operating systems in the industry. PowerVM Standard Edition is supported on Power™ Systems servers and includes features designed to allow businesses to increase system utilization; while helping to ensure applications continue to get the resources they need.	PowerVM Enterprise Edition includes all the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus two new industry-leading capabilities called Active Memory Sharing and Live Partition Mobility. Active Memory Sharing intelligently flows system memory from one partition to another as workload demands change... Show More PowerVM Enterprise Edition includes all the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus two new industry-leading capabilities called Active Memory Sharing and Live Partition Mobility. Active Memory Sharing intelligently flows system memory from one partition to another as workload demands change. Live Partition Mobility allows for the movement of a running partition from one server to another with no application downtime, resulting in better system utilization, improved application availability and energy savings. With Live Partition Mobility, planned application downtime due to regular server maintenance can be a thing of the past.
Intended User The organization size that the software was intended for	Small-Medium Business Enterprise	Small-Medium Business Enterprise	Small-Medium Business Enterprise

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Price

$590 per core plus $110 per year for Software Maintenance and $29 24*7 support cost.

A midrange machine: it costs $990 per machine plus $110 per year for maintenance.

A large server: it costs $1,280 per core plus $110 per year for maintenance.

$1,169 per core.
A midrange system - $1,470 per core.
A large system - $1,969 per core.
On embedded systems - $309 per core.

Software Maintenance costs $220 per year.

License

Licenses are either Open-Source (Free) or Proprietary (Purchased).

Proprietary

Licensing Details

per server licensing

Per-processor Licensing.

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Architecture Virtualization software fits with certain types of hardware, or architecture.	x86 x64	x86 x64	x86 x64
Hypervisor Type Hypervisors either function with a server's host operating system or the host operating system itself.	Bare Metal (Type 1)	Bare Metal (Type 1)	Bare Metal (Type 1)
Virtualization Type You may accomplish virtualization in multiple ways. Each method involves a unique configuration of applications, hypervisors, and operating systems.	Full Virtualization	Full Virtualization	Full Virtualization
Host System Requirements Host server system requirements to use the virtualization software	IBM PowerVM Express Edition (www-03.ibm.com)	IBM PowerVM Standard Edition (pic.dhe.ibm.com)	IBM PowerVM Enterprise Edition (pic.dhe.ibm.com)
Supported Guest Operating Systems Inside the virtual environment, hypervisors, or virtualization software programs, are compatible with certains types of operating systems.	CentOS Fedora Mandrake Linux Novell Linux Desktop Novell Netware Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server See more› Ubuntu Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Professional	CentOS Fedora Mandrake Linux Novell Linux Desktop Novell Netware Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server See more› Ubuntu Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Professional	CentOS Fedora Mandrake Linux Novell Linux Desktop Novell Netware Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server See more› Ubuntu Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Professional
Supported Guest OS More Info These are the Operating Systems that the hypervisor can support and that virtual machines run on	IBM PowerVM Express Edition (www-03.ibm.com)	-	-
Supported Storage These are the types of storage that the virtualization software is compatible with	FC Firewire PATA SATA SCSI SSD for Swap USB	FC Firewire PATA SATA SCSI SSD for Swap USB	FC Firewire PATA SATA SCSI SSD for Swap USB

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Management Features

VMS solutions may boast supplementary features that further the capabilities of the software.

Capacity planning/management refers to monitoring capacity trends, forcasting capacity shortages, and alerting administrators of capacity-related issues.
Capacity Planning/Management
Used to allocate and reallocate resources (including processing power, network bandwidth, memory, and storage) as necessary. This feature uses performance metrics in order to achieve the most efficient configuration.
Dynamic Resource Allocation
Failover is the automatic transition to a secondary VM or server upon failure of the primary component. This is an important capability for high availability.
Failover
High availability is essentially a "promise" by the software vendor that a prearranged level of service and availability of applications in the virtual environment can be maintained. This can be delivered through robust system design and a plan for the occurrence of faults and failures.
High Availability
This feature provides users with the ability to move the location of a virtual machine or its resources without powering down the system. As a result, organizations can maintain operation of their applications during the restructuring of their virtual infrastructure.
Live Migration
Multiple host resource pools aggregate all physical server resources within the virtualized environment into one shared pool. This pool can be accessed by all VMs in the network, assuming compatibility between servers.
Multiple Host Resource Pools
These alerts send notifications to adminstration as soon as faults or failures are detected.
Real Time Alerts
Shared resource pools split-up the resources of a physical server among the virtual servers living on it, creating virtualized storage, memory, CPU, and networks.
Shared Resource Pools
Provides the ability to move a single VM's or group of VM's storage from one location within the virtualized environment to another.
Stor