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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."
"In general, VMware improves the way almost every business using it operates."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"Workloads; We use vSphere for mission-critical apps including SAP and and part of our internal development in C+, for the solution that collects everything for the buyers."
"The product offers good stability."
"The interface is good, and it is easy to configure."
"The cost savings in itself from having to buy 15 servers in each hotel, now we have one server for each hotel, and when we release our new applications we don’t have to invest in new infrastructure because we just scale on what is already in place for a five-year lifecycle with no further investments."
"VMware vSphere 5.5 should be invested in for virtualization infrastructure as it is cheap, effective, and stable."
"ESXi allows us to grow dynamically and with minimum downtime."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Most of the time I get a lot of questions back from the support engineer, so maybe they don’t fully understand the systems."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"It loses points on cost, as there are free solutions, but we don’t want to use them."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"I think what they need to improve on is their pricing. They're starting to get a little high-end in terms of price compared to other solutions and the other solutions are catching up."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"In the early 6.x days, their support went down."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"It is cost effective."
"I rate the solution's pricing a ten out of ten due to the recent price changes."
"Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses."
"If you go with a standard license, it's very affordable."
"This is an expensive product and the price needs to be reduced."
"There is an average performance boost, especially if you use VM encryption inside the VMware with another product, like McAfee. You will see great improvement in these cases."
"We pay our licensing fees on a yearly basis."
"The license growth of vSphere depends on the growth of the visual environment and the addition of more hosts."
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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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