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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

"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The hypervisor based server visualization product, launched from Microsoft along with Microsoft Server 2008 R2, greatly helps in managing high availability, load balancing, resource sharing, and fail over clustering."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"Technical support is 10/10."
"I find Hyper V useful in managing virtual machines in environments with smaller workloads."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The VMs are easy to deploy and to manage from a central administration portal, in respect of managing the workloads."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
 

Cons

"Regarding the pricing of Hyper-V, the licensing is somewhat expensive. Since we are buying it through a third party from a supplier or partner, it becomes more expensive as a customer."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"Technical support is very limited."
"Microsoft Hyper-V is not the equal or superior to VMware’s ESXi!"
"We're missing quite a lot of features on Hyper-V and I'd like to see more flexibility in terms of moving server automation."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs. The performance could be a bit better."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Hyper-V is included in the Microsoft Azure license for no extra cost. However, they charge for technical support calls on an hourly basis."
"I would not say that it is a totally reasonably priced product as it is merged with our overall costs associated with Microsoft products. We bought some enterprise licenses for our company's data center for Windows Server 2019."
"Hyper-V is more cost-effective for the size of our business One of the Hyper-V's biggest advantages over VMware is the cost. We are a small business, so Hyper-V allowed us to virtualize everything we need without breaking the bank."
"I do not have experience with pricing or licensing of the product."
"I use the free version of Hyper-V."
"It's not expensive."
"If you have the standard edition of Windows server then with each copy of the operating system, you have two virtual machines for free."
"We did not have to pay extra money for the Failover Clustering feature."
"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
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Questions from the Community

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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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