Partnering the PowerVM hypervisor with
Written by Joe Cropper
IBM Power Systems have always provided huge "bang for the buck" through industry-leading hardware coupled with all of the features you would expect from an enterprise-grade hypervisor (i.e., PowerVM). Power Systems are generally managed via either the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) or the Hardware Management Console (HMC). While both of these platform management solutions provide administrators with all the knobs and buttons to manage their systems (and will continue to do so), IBM recognizes the need for a simple, user-friendly solution that focuses on enterprise virtualization management to streamline your day-to-day virtualization management tasks and unleash the many strengths of IBM Power Systems. This is where PowerVC is called to duty!