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Odin Virtuozzo Containers [EOL] vs VMware vSphere comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Odin Virtuozzo Containers [...
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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VMware vSphere
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
461
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Featured Reviews

Ramon Ruiz - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT at Servnet
Significant backup for containers, but the customer service is terrible
Anyone considering this solution should not compare it to the old versions. They should be a partner with Virtuozzo and run all the certifications. Also, they need a good lab to understand the technology and how they can apply that technology conveniently. This is very commercial software. It does not have support, so you will need to be hands-on. I would rate Odin Virtuozzo a six out of 10 overall.
RajeshK10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Architect at Central Bank of India
Reliable virtualization has supported smooth DR drills and efficient resource allocation
VMware vSphere has proven to be robust in nature, and the new features are quite acceptable. The new features in NSX network switching make it more useful in the reliability management of data centers. vMotion has helped my organization's business continuity strategies during our planned DR drill activity. The migration of VMs from DC to DR is quite smooth with respect to the network link. I assess the impact of VMware vSphere's High Availability feature on my infrastructure resilience as effective during DR drill activities and firmware upgrades, which we perform every six months. During those times, we rely on maintenance mode of several servers, and HA works properly. I have nothing to complain about. We have utilized VMware vSphere's Distributed Resource Scheduler effectively. Even though we have over-provisioned the vCPUs, it efficiently manages the CPU cores and memory of the servers intelligently, so I am not experiencing any bottleneck in resource utilization. Distributed Resource Scheduler has affected my resource allocation performance positively, providing a 20 percent advantage over my old hardware.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"As the vSphere platform allows for a variety of additions, it is quite good."
"VMware's platform is the most robust for running VMs upon, and it also has the most mature technology."
"There are several valuable features, including virtualization, of course, as well as DRS, High Availability, SRM, and vMotion."
"Compared to other products, vSphere is number one in terms of flexibility and scalability."
"The initial setup was easy, and we didn't experience any difficulties."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"The price can be very high, but in the case of a service provider with a VSPP program, you can offer the top class vSphere features for two to three sold VM."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"I know VMWare has this Operations Manager. I know that it comes at a price because VMWare normally wants to charge for everything in the software. But I'm not seeing all the features of the Operations Manager. I only see a few features. If all the features can be included in one package, that would be good."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately there is always a little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"The web client needs a lot of work. Unless they replace the C# client with something better, they're going to have issues."
"The support could be a bit better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"In my opinion, the essential version is a good price."
"It is very expensive as compared to other competitive hypervisor solutions in the market today. Its competitors are actually more aggressive. Even though most of them are less established solutions, they have started to catch up in functionality and capacity, and their pricing is extremely aggressive."
"Pricing is a little bit on the higher side, compared to other products."
"The pricing could be improved."
"It keeps together a lot of different environments, making it easier and faster to work. It definitely has a good turn around."
"VMware is costly versus other competitors but is still one of the market leaders and expanding now with partners like AWS."
"It's a pricey solution."
"Container support is the last great addition for VMware and it is worth the money you spend on it."
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Comparison Review

it_user234735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant, ASEAN at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
May 10, 2015
Hyper-V 2012 R2 vs. VMware vSphere 5.5
I was won with Hyper-V 2012R2 recently and the table below based on customer RFP (edited). This articles all about technical, there is not related with TCO/ROI, licensing cost, “political”, etc. Another to noted is the Windows Server 2012 licenses is based on 2 socket CPU, meanwhile…
 

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Financial Services Firm
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Construction Company
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Outsourcing Company
8%
 

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