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Hyper-V vs Odin Virtuozzo Containers [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Hyper-V
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
145
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Server Virtualization Software (2nd)
Odin Virtuozzo Containers [...
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Tomas Basus - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Professional at NIPOS
Virtualization has reduced licensing costs and improved integration but still needs better performance insight
Integrations bring the biggest benefit to us. We use half of our virtual machines that are Microsoft, so it works better hosted in Hyper-V compared to VMware. Clustering and failover capabilities in the product help with our availability. It helped because we switched to Hyper-V because it was lower cost than paying for high availability in VMware. We need Microsoft licenses for virtual machines, so it costs less than buying two solutions for that. We have data center editions, so it did not cost us additional money compared to paying for high availability from VMware. I think it helped a little, but not so different compared to VMware regarding security and bandwidth optimization.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's ease of use is the most important feature, as it is very easy to use and implement, with very good fail-over features that allow servers to run in a fail-over cluster so that whenever one server fails, you can migrate the workloads to the second one to avoid service downtime or minimize it at the very least."
"Hyper-V is completely free, which is a significant advantage."
"The installation was straightforward."
"Hyper-V's gotten a lot better since 2012 and 2012 R2, and now the 2016 is light years again."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control and administration view as well, directly benefiting the products and services offered on the platform and allowing customers to increase or decrease resources on their workloads at any given time while reducing their costs."
"It's scalable."
"Previously, I was using VMware, but it was a bit costly compared to Hyper-V."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
 

Cons

"Hyper-V is vulnerable to server failure."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Perhaps improvement should be made when you want to change some configuration on VM's, and you have to shut down the VM in order to do so."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"The only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs depend on the environment you have. If you have an environment of less than 10 or 30 VMs, It's nice to have a Hyper-V, but if you have more than 100 or 200, I would recommend using VCenter, VMware virtualization, especially for an on-premise solution."
"Hyper-V is part of Windows Server, so there are no extra costs for the product."
"Hyper-V is free-of-charge."
"Hyper-V is cost-effective and is a one-time purchase. Microsoft has multiple licensing options available, such as a subscription model and an outside purchase model that customers can choose as per their requirements."
"The pricing is not much. We have a very big environment, and pricing is no problem."
"I think I'm okay with the cost. There are no monthly or yearly costs or additional costs."
"This product costs less than other competitor products on the market."
"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
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…
 

Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise46
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Questions from the Community

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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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