In a new blog, T. R. Bosworth, Offering Manager for Power Virtualization, IBM, writes about the launch of PowerKVM, which represents the first time IBM is offering open hypervisor technology in addition to its proprietary PowerVM on Power:
First discussed at Red Hat Summit 2013 by Arvind Krishna, GM Development and Manufacturing, IBM STG, the introduction of PowerKVM is an open alternative to IBM’s proprietary PowerVM technology which has been offered on Power systems. The addition serves the dual purpose of furthering IBM’s support of Linux and open source technologies, and also providing more choice to Power customers. With PowerKVM, Linux-centric administrators can very quickly get up to speed. If they know KVM or any kind of virtualization that is x86-focused, they can rapidly configure the system and administer it as if it were another Linux or KVM instance. Read on.