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Odin Virtuozzo Containers [EOL] vs VMware vSphere comparison

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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
6.9
Number of Reviews
461
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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 solution is very straightforward to implement."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"Better management of the virtual infrastructure"
"If you need to meet your business SLA, then there is no second choice in virtualization to give you peace of mind; it is easy to manage, scalable, stable and has APIs to integrate with all the backup solutions."
"It's a big difference compared to having everything on hardware."
"In terms of the usability, it's user-friendly; VMware vSphere is much simpler as compared to Oracle, much more stable than other products, and it is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"With this solution, we can provide more resources, cheaper, quickly, and still keep the integrity and quality of our services."
"By engaging virtualization and vSphere's advanced features, we've started to effectively manage workload and resources, resulting in better performance with fine grained tuning."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Given that, I don't think VMware should be charging so much for the hypervisor."
"The only problem with it is that it is now in the category of obsolete products. Though it's still very good, its support and updates won't be available."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"There are still some areas where it would be nice to be able to find things quicker, but it's improved so much over the last two to three years that it's phenomenal."
"Tech support is sometimes good and sometimes bad. We work in the Southeast Asia region where sometimes we have a language barrier."
"The pricing is an area for improvement in the product. The solution is a bit expensive."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning. If you are cloning a virtual machine and you have any license on another system it will crash and we have to contact third-party support for assistance."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"Pricing is the one "ding" I have against it. Except for VMware vSphere Essentials, it would be pretty challenging for anything but a medium or large size company to use."
"Our customers incur a yearly licensing fee, one of three or five years, in fact."
"Our ROI is time management savings."
"This is an expensive product and the price needs to be reduced."
"Start with the lowest and upgrade if, and only if, absolutely necessary."
"Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses."
"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution. The price is a little high in developing countries. If they were able to reduce the price they would receive more customers now and even more in the future."
"I think the licensing cost depends on the number of users."
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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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Outsourcing Company
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Construction Company
9%
 

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