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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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Categories and Ranking

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."
"Scalability is great – it allows us to be more resilient and more disaster ready as an organization."
"Go ahead and implement it as you will enjoy using it."
"VMware is a wonderful product and it will definitely provide you with the functionality to meet your technical requirements."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"Benefits of vSphere: It saves me a ton of time, I can really quickly spin up new things to test them out or to respond to a need from the business."
"It provides us a global standardization, ease of management on a global level, and helps our remote sites for those who don’t have a sufficient tech level."
"If you're looking for any hypervisor, vSphere is not a gold standard, vSphere is the gold standard."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The introduction of a web console could be a great improvement for sysadmin, but the poor responsive interface has been solved in v6.0."
"The major disadvantage that i can think off is that we have to pay for all the features to be available."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"It is expensive."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"​The only issue with vSphere might be with the cost of the tools and the software.​"
"The pricing is too expensive. The reason why we implemented Hyper-V is because of the licensing costs. They are way too high."
"It is expensive."
"The price is not an issue for our mid-sized or large-sized customers, but it can be expensive for our smaller customers."
"The price could be lower."
"You will find the cost is reasonably cheaper."
"We pay for our license."
"We are on a perpetual license for VMware vSphere and the price can be expensive compared to other solutions, such as Hyper-V. They should lower their price."
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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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Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

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Midsize Enterprise138
Large Enterprise261
 

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