We performed a comparison between KVM and Odin Virtuozzo Containers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The initial setup was simple."
"The KVM service is well managed with a central policy interface."
"One of the best features of KVM is its user-friendly interface."
"What I like most about KVM is that it's very easy to use. Everything is built-in, even when writing command lines."
"There is a strong emphasis on availability, and they have numerous API interfaces for distributed storage and the solution is quite known for its openness."
"A very reliable solution which can be used for x86 architecture virtualization with reasonable overhead."
"KVM is stable."
"I find the density of the product most valuable. It is density that a technologist can just assign page merging. This is what makes KVM one of the important players of the virtualization market."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
"I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support."
"KVM is very difficult to manage and run on daily operations."
"The initial setup of this solution is more difficult than some of the competing products and it could be improved."
"One problem I have is that it's not very scalable when it comes to resizing the VM disk dimensions. For example, if you have initially set a virtual drive to 10 GB and you want to upgrade it to 15 GB, it's not that easy."
"The networking with wireless devices needs improvement."
"In our setup, we do not have any dashboards or orchestration, and it is hard to manage. We have 25 gig network cards, but the software driver we have only supported 10 gigs."
"We are not getting good support from KVM, and it is not that user-friendly."
"Its resource usage can be improved."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 38 reviews while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is ranked 11th in Server Virtualization Software with 2 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Odin Virtuozzo Containers writes "Significant backup for containers, but the customer service is terrible". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and OpenVZ, whereas Odin Virtuozzo Containers is most compared with Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.
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