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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."
"Buy it, and you will be hard pressed to find a better combination, but you need to understand it, and have a plan."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"Customer support is one of the best in the market."
"At the present time, you cannot go wrong with VMware's vSphere suite."
"Virtualization of our environment has made our carbon footprint, the real estate necessary and the ease of deployment in time savings significant."
"Due to this product, we have saved space, energy, and durability."
"We are able to scale up far better with densities of 10:1 or 20:1 and provide robust, flexible computing to our increasing application demands."
"Anybody who's looking to research this, to upgrade in the future, should go for it."
 

Cons

"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"Centralized management could be better. A server can only be managed by one vCenter."
"The alerting functions, right now based on performance, is not so clear now either by email or on the console."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The setup can be complicated for those who are not technically inclined."
"When I needed to equip a new startup, I was unable to get the budget for vSphere past finance, so I ended up adopting a cheaper alternative even though it meant more work."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
"Its price could be lower. There is the cost of one license, and then there is the subscription cost for support."
"In my opinion, the essential version is a good price."
"The solution is good but it's too expensive."
"Pricing is insanely expensive."
"We pay for the license of VMware vSphere yearly."
"I'm satisfied with the VMware vSphere price. They have a bundle that is priced well. However, any advantage feature is very costly."
"The licensing cost is strictly based on the number of CPUs that your hosts have."
"I think the licensing cost depends on the number of users."
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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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