PowerVM  PowerVM, formerly known as Advanced Power Virtualization (APV), is a chargeable feature of IBM POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9 servers and is required for support of micro-partitions and other advanced features. Support is provided for IBM i, AIX and Linux. IBM PowerVM has the following components:  IBM PowerVM comes in three editions. This is primarily intended for "sandbox" environments   This is the most common edition in use on production systems.