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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.

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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 is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs, making the solution impactful, as you have one place to go to manage everything from one console."
"We run 3,000 VMs; it works for what we need it to do, and all of our retail point-of-sale systems and their back-end are running on VMware, so everything is virtual."
"We were able to centralize the server farm, thus able to focus administrators on their immediate tasks, reduce response time to incidents, concentrate the informational flows, facilitate the task of data protection."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"The product offers good stability."
"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."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"To use VMware now, you must be a very big company because it is too expensive to maintain."
"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."
"Given that, I don't think VMware should be charging so much for the hypervisor."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"VMware is very pricey and really the most useful in very large virtualization environments."
"I would like to see better fault and performance reporting in the GUI. I should not have to resort to using the command line to see what is going on."
"It would be nice if they could have offer a straight/forward deployment of vCenter from an OVA, not from an ISO."
"Poor memory management."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"We would like it to be affordable to use the manage services on the cloud, then let VMware manage it and have AWS a part of it. This would make the easier transition from on-premise to cloud and be of value."
"If I have three hosts, just three hosts, a minimum of three hosts plus the vSphere and Center, I'm almost spending close to $250,000 a year."
"The pricing is too expensive. The reason why we implemented Hyper-V is because of the licensing costs. They are way too high."
"The licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"Pricing can still be improved for this solution."
"It is a perpetual licensing but there is also an annual maintenance cost."
"There is a perpetual license for this solution and the support is a yearly subscription."
"Our licensing fees on paid on a yearly basis and the pricing is fine."
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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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