The hybrid IBM POWER solution you’ve been waiting for
IBM Power® Systems clients who have typically relied upon on-premises-only infrastructure can now quickly and economically extend their Power IT resources onto IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers. Avoid the large capital expense or added risk when migrating your essential workloads. IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are colocated and connected with IBM Cloud™, integrating your IBM AIX® and IBM i capabilities. That means you get fast, self-service provisioning, flexible management both on premises and off premises, and access to a stack of enterprise IBM Cloud services — all with pay-as-you-use billing that lets you easily scale up and out.
How can IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers help you?
Grow at your own pace
Extend your Power workloads onto IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers without heavy upfront costs. Help keep budgets under control with transparent pricing and pay-as-you-use billing.
Run your workloads when and where you want
Bring more capacity to your Power infrastructure — on-demand, within minutes. Stay competitive and agile with flexible management both on premises and off premises.
Choose your deployment
Select your system and customize cores, storage, network, OS and more. Let the IBM team fully manage it for you or opt for a self-service model.
What problems can you solve with IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers?
Data copy
Secure a Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service site on IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers. Help ensure your mission-critical applications, systems of records, IBM Db2® transactions or ERP/CRM plans remain resilient with off-site, high-availability resources.
Development and testing
Help reduce costs with pay-as-you-use billing to accommodate the transient nature of development and testing environments. Begin projects without large, capital budget approvals, run multiple tests simultaneously, and spin up or down as needed.
Resource scaling
Bring more capacity to on-premises infrastructure when required. Take advantage of virtual server resources and pay-as-you-use to help deliver peak operational performance plus Opex savings.
Customer support
Work through non-production tasks in parallel to production environments. Troubleshoot, replicate and help resolve issues faster by using a virtually constant supply of LPARs for staging.
Platform-as-a-Service
Connect to cloud-native services and architectural patterns to help transform business models, including web applications, DevOps and Db2 workloads. Help drive mobility through modernization.
Access to AI
Connect your IBM Power Systems workloads to IBM Watson®. Help improve decisions based on real-time trends. Build truly cognitive applications quickly and more securely.
Workload-based customization examples
AIX Development LPAR
Ideal for small workloads, starter LPAR to try cloud
Starting at USD 234/month
1 core, S922 shared processor
8 GB RAM
250 GB (tier 3/HDD)
AIX OS
IBM i Production LPAR
Ideal for IBM i workloads where CPW requirement is less than 1 P9 core
Starting at USD 886/month
5 cores, S922 shared processor cores
8 GB RAM
500 GB (tier 3/HDD)
IBM i OS
AIX Enterprise Production LPAR
Ideal for AIX workloads when software licensing requires dedicated processor cores
Starting at USD 2,046/month
2 cores, S922 dedicated processor cores
48 GB RAM
750 GB (tier 1/SSD)
AIX OS