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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."
"It's awesome. It works. It does exactly what we want it."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"I would advise you to implement it as I believe it's still the best in virtualization for expandability and usability."
"The solution is stable, with no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze, providing reliable performance."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The fact that you can use all the CPU and memory power that the server can provide is most valuable."
"We never have a problem; it’s almost set it and forget it, and once configured, it takes care of itself."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"It is expensive in terms of cost, licensing, and professional services."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"The Essentials Plus licensing is very restrictive and has no upgrade paths to other licensing models."
"I would like to see data recovery responsible for the virtual machine snapshot. It is not reliable as the parent snapshot gets corrupted and the whole corresponding snapshots collapse."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"Pricing needs to be competitive since Microsoft Hyper-V has come a long way; they are both around the same price range."
"The price could be lower."
"It is expensive in terms of cost, licensing, and professional services."
"The product is very expensive."
"Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses."
"This solution is quite expensive, but it provides the same functionality as its competitors."
"We pay for the license of VMware vSphere yearly."
"We pay our licensing fees on a yearly basis."
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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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Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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