Overview

The hybrid IBM Power® solution you’ve been waiting for

IBM Power Systems customers have higher risk environments and need an extremely low-risk infrastructure. Power systems are enterprise class machines associated with trusted, high performance. Expand your hybrid cloud journey with IBM Power Systems Virtual Server for a consistent experience, modernizing at your pace and price point, on and off premises.

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Extend your on-premises workloads

Dig into the high-performance, security and agility of Power IaaS. Check out use cases and examples.

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Case studies

Labeyrie Fine Foods

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Labeyrie chooses IBM Power Systems Virtual Server for ERP modernization project.

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Coca-Cola European Partners

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CCEP migrates workloads with IBM Power Systems Virtual Server solution.

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FNZ (UK) Ltd

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IBM Power Systems Virtual Server helps FNZ upgrade its approach to testing — and more.

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Benefits

How can IBM Power Systems Virtual Server help you?

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Grow at your own pace

Use IBM Power Systems Virtual Server to extend workloads and pay-as-you-use billing to manage costs.

Flexible consumption

Add capacity to Power infrastructure — on-demand, within minutes. Manage on premises or off premises.

Run mission-critical workload

Simultaneously work on nonproduction tasks and production environments. Help resolve issues faster using LPARs.

Modernize Power workloads

Connect to services and architectural patterns to help transform. business models, including web applications, DevOps and IBM Db2® workloads.

Access to AI

Connect IBM Power Systems workloads to IBM Watson® to improve decision-making and build cognitive applications.

New for Power Systems Virtual Server

All workloads for PowerVS are now eligible for a 1-year committed use savings plan (up to 30% discount) and a 3-plus-year committed use savings plan (up to 45% discount).

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Modernize your IBM i applications

Benefit from new technologies such as hybrid cloud and containerization. 

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Resources

Run SAP HANA workloads

Run critical SAP HANA workloads on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux using IBM Power Systems Virtual Server.

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Extend Red Hat® OpenShift®

Extend your Red Hat OpenShift experience to IBM Power Systems Virtual Server.

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Breaking it down: Power virtual computing solution

Power virtual servers defined

Better understand what a Power virtual server is and the potential benefits through this video.

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What is a Power Virtual Server?

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Use cases

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Disaster recovery as a service

Manage resiliency of mission-critical applications, systems of records, IBM Db2® transactions or ERP/CRM plans.

Development and testing

Use pay-as-you-use billing as you start projects without large, capital budgets; run multiple tests simultaneously; and spin up or down as needed.

Resource scaling

Add capacity to on-premises infrastructure when needed. Take advantage of virtual server resources and pay-as-you-use to help deliver peak savings.

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Join the community

Engage with experts in the IBM Power Systems Virtual Server Community.

Power Systems Virtual Server Business Partners

Take your AIX, System i and Linux workloads to IBM Power Systems Virtual Server faster and more securely with the IBM ecosystem of partners.