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Hyper-V vs Odin Virtuozzo Containers [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Hyper-V
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
146
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Odin Virtuozzo Containers [...
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.2
Number of Reviews
2
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Featured Reviews

Marcelo Siqueira - PeerSpot reviewer
Especialista de Infraestrutura at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Virtualization has improved proactive maintenance and observability for complex clustered workloads
Hyper-V could be improved in terms of performance of live migrations. I notice that in VMware, vMotion, which is the same concept as live migration, is faster than in Hyper-V. It is not that it does not work, but in terms of performance, VMware ends up being better for these virtual machine moves.I do not think there is anything else I would like to add regarding necessary improvements related to the interface, stability, or support. The interface is great and very intuitive. Support is also very quick and functional from Microsoft when a problem occurs. Once the environment is very well configured, there should not be problems in Hyper-V. The main area I would improve is mostly the performance of virtual machine migrations. If this migration performance were improved, I believe Hyper-V would reach a perfect score.
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

"We previously used VMware, but we switched because Hyper-V is cheaper and delivers the same stability for less money."
"You can centrally manage multiple Hyper-V hosts rather easy with no extra licensing fees vs VMware vCenter."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution is highly stable."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The solution is very stable."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
 

Cons

"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"I didn't give it a 10 out of 10 because sometimes remotely managing it isn't as simple as it could be."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"Storage via SMB3."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Hyper-V is expensive."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"Licensing needs to be a lot easier to manage with Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware is easier."
"I wish the licensing was simpler, and allowed for a greater number of VM's with the Microsoft standard licensing, but overall I think it's fair. The pricing is definitely fair."
"There is a perpetual license to use the solution and there are additional fees for support."
"The product is a bit expensive, but it is worth the money."
"It's not expensive."
"Hyper-V is part of Windows Server, so there are no extra costs for the product."
"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%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise47
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Large customer base from all industries, all over the world. Two major Hyper-V customers are Telefonica and EmpireCLS.
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