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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
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware vSphere
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
461
Ranking in other categories
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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 stability and support."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform; we never had any issues with VMware vSphere, and once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Accessibility and the ease of use is unparalleled."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"This product is useful for running multiple virtual machines from a single server so that people can utilize the hardware resources in their organization. Its ability for backups is also valuable. In case of a disaster, you can recover the entire server from the images. It is easy to use. In terms of features, whatever they are providing is more than sufficient for us. We are not exploiting this product up to a hundred percent."
"It's a simple to use solution, and along with fast implementation, you can install it and run it, so have fun."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Distributed vSwitch and vSphere are the most valuable features."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"The web client could use some tweaks, and they should move from flash-based to HTML5."
"Technical support is a little slow to get back to you. We haven't had any mission-critical outages but we play some phone-tag."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"I am going to be honest that their level-one support is actually not that helpful."
"Customer service needs a lot of improvement. They need to improve on keeping customers informed of their ongoing issues."
"The pricing is an area for improvement in the product. The solution is a bit expensive."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"The vSAN license not very cheap."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"I think the cost should be reconsidered. VMware is not the cheapest solution out there, despite the fact that it may be one of the best."
"Pricing needs to be competitive since Microsoft Hyper-V has come a long way; they are both around the same price range."
"The license is a one-time payment. You buy it once and own it forever, but you must pay for support, which is provided by the vendor, on a yearly basis."
"When comparing the price of VMware solutions to other vendors, such as Nutanix, they are costly."
"There is a perpetual license for this solution and the support is a yearly subscription."
"In the past six months, we have saved around 110TBs of storage, which is almost equivalent to $200,000 USD. That is a huge savings."
"VMware is expensive, from the baseline, initial investment. It depends, though, because if someone goes for ESXi—the latest version, ESXi Essential, or even the opensource—then it is not available in Microsoft. ESXi opensource is totally free, and the only features that aren't available are some API features. But if someone has a small office with less than 50 users, and they just need to run the hypervisor, then VMware is a free solution for that. If someone is considering the price and comparing Business ESXi with Hyper-V, if they already have an existing Windows license, then I would suggest going for Hyper-V because it's much cheaper. Aside from that, I would recommend going for VMware."
"Its price could be lower. There is the cost of one license, and then there is the subscription cost for support."
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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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