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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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Odin Virtuozzo Containers [...
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
2
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VMware vSphere
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
459
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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.
IA
IT Director at Def Industry
Has improved infrastructure monitoring and resource management but requires better support and cost efficiency
The high availability feature's resilience is not bad, but it could be better. For example, whenever you lose any hardware, you will have interruptions on the services, and it reboots again on the other hardware host which is available at the crash time. That's good, but we would prefer to have zero downtime instead of the rebooting on the other server. We would prefer to have a zero downtime always-on configuration. VMware vSphere has a built-in feature called Fault Tolerance, but it's very limited for very limited VMs or very limited core count or CPU count, so it's not so useful for all the environment because of the limitations. The Fault Tolerance (FT) feature is very limited to very little core counts or very little VM counts, so you can't run the Fault Tolerance for all the servers or all the VMs, and that's very bad. If VMware vSphere could have any kind of built-in patch management environment with a repository, offline repository option, with test, non-production, and production environment separated, this would be perfect. Management of patch management with operating systems and including third-party applications which are running on the servers would enhance the VMware vSphere environment. VMware vSphere is very expensive. The worst aspect of VMware vSphere is the price. I can't tell you the exact cost at this time because the other team members in my teams are working on it, but I remember that the prices are very high. VMware vSphere is easy to scale, but it could be better, similar to a Kubernetes environment. It should have an automatic scale-out feature when the load gets high; if it gets some scale out automatically, it would be better than this, similar to Kubernetes or OpenShift.

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."
"VMware tech support is excellent; it’s one of the best vendor tech support I’ve found."
"As soon as we switched over from Workstation to ESXi and vCenter, the downtime was very minimized, and growth and flexibility are now there."
"We have 8000 to 9000 VMs standing in our internal cloud, and it has been an absolute pleasure having vSphere."
"Over the last decade, it's been extremely dependable."
"The freelance experience for the platform is excellent."
"VMware is a safe solution and it's a stable solution."
"The solution is very stable and very reliable."
"The interface is good."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"My advice when it comes to pricing is that pricing is a bummer, especially when it comes to SnS coverage."
"Like VSAN for instance, a lot of the storage vendors that are really going for it to be on the VSAN HCL, and unfortunately some of the RAID controllers are not on that HCL, and a lot of times people don't know that."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better."
"Hard to justify annual maintenance vs. HyperV"
"The VSAN storage could be improved."
"I'm not a big fan of the web client, and would have liked to have had them stick with the Windows client, as the web one is quite a bit different."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"They should have a good built-in backup feature. Although there is a built-in feature already, it is called VMWare Data Protection, but it is not at all user friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"It's a monthly subscription model."
"The product is worth what you pay for it. I definitely feel like I"m getting good value."
"Start with the lowest and upgrade if, and only if, absolutely necessary."
"I'm not a pricing or budgeting person, but I know that its price is a little bit high, and they can consider reviewing it. Its price is probably the highest in this domain."
"VMware licensing and pricing are a bit more expensive compared to others, like Hyper-V. However, you get what you pay for."
"There are not any licensing costs."
"There is a perpetual license for this solution and the support is a yearly subscription."
"The organization pays the licensing fees."
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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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