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Hyper-V vs Odin Virtuozzo Containers [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Hyper-V
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
144
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Odin Virtuozzo Containers [...
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Ananth Narayana Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective and good for small workloads while addressing update-driven challenges is needed
I use Azure Monitor and other monitoring solutions to support clients in Accenture's managed services. We support multiple environments, primarily on cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, and also on-premises environments with operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Solaris, among others…
Ramon Ruiz - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
 

Cons

"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"The user interface of the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing or the licensing of the product."
"I use the free version of Hyper-V."
"There is a perpetual license to use the solution and there are additional fees for support."
"Hyper-V is free-of-charge."
"Licensing cost depends on the edition you choose. There are two main options: Standard and Datacenter. With a Datacenter license, you can only create two virtual machines that are covered by the license itself. You can create more VMs, but they won't be licensed and could result in charges during an audit."
"It's not expensive."
"Thanks to our enterprise agreement with Microsoft, Hyper-V is free for us."
"This is a fairly expensive product because it balances the needs of security."
"The license for Odin Virtuozzo is based on consumption on demand."
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Comparison Review

it_user234735 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
 

Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
University
7%
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Small Business68
Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise46
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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Hyper-V?
The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy.
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Sample Customers

Large customer base from all industries, all over the world. Two major Hyper-V customers are Telefonica and EmpireCLS.
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