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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
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VMware vSphere
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
460
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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."
"Thanks to vSphere we have improved our availability and scalability, and we are now able to dynamically move to a cloud paradigm."
"VMware vSphere 5.5 should be invested in for virtualization infrastructure as it is cheap, effective, and stable."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it because it's resilient and you do not have many products to install."
"The most useful aspect of VMware vSphere is that I can see the machines by folders regarding activities."
"You get virtualized servers, which means you can run a bunch of servers on a couple of machines, so you save money and you save the environmental costs like power and heat."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"The price is high, but you get a lot functionnality included with the product."
"When I think of what tried me most with vSphere, it's probably the fact that my colleagues and I on the Virtual Infrastructure Admin team always had to do debugging and troubleshooting on VM configuration files in a manual manner if we wanted to bring to life broken VMs."
"5.1 SSO is a disaster, it was re-done for 5.5 and improved again for 6.0."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"We have noticed the great need for more power and memory requirements especially when the vmware servers (guests) start to request for more processing and memory."
"The solution, in general, is quite expensive."
"The biggest pain when it comes to VMware is that licensing costs are pretty high."
"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."
"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."
"Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses."
"Considering the number of users, it is pretty reasonable. I am not aware of any costs in addition to the licensing fees."
"The solution is good but it's too expensive."
"I'm not a pricing or budgeting person, but I know that its price is a little bit high, and they can consider reviewing it. Its price is probably the highest in this domain."
"VSphere is an expensive solution."
"I don't like the price because it's too expensive."
"It saves us money because we don't have to buy as many physical servers."
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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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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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