Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 30, 2006 03:57 AM
I'm glad to see a fairly detailed review of Virtuozzo. I've been using OpenVZ since it was initially released and have grown well accustomed to its command line tools. I had read about the differences between OpenVZ and Virtuozzo but really hadn't given a lot of thought to the differences. Your article helped flesh it out.
One thing I don't like about Virtuozzo is, like several other software companies out there, they don't list outright prices on their products page... they have a "contact sales person for quote" operations, and I find that really annoying. I got a quote from them and it didn't say anything about keeping it private so I'll share it here for those who might be interested:
- - - - - Virtuozzo Server License: $1000 per CPU
Virtuozzo Management Console VZMC (GUI based) Single Server License $200 per seat. Unlimited server license $1000 per seat
Virtuozzo Control Center VZCC (web-based management) Single Server License $300 per seat
Support (annual fee):
Silver: email during business day 2 CPU $400 / 4 CPU $600 Gold: phone + email during business day 2 CPU $600 / 4 CPU $900 Platinum: phone + email 24/7 2 CPU $900 / 4 CPU $1,350
2 Notes: a) If you have hyper-threading or multi-core processors it still counts as 1 CPU b) We do offer a 25% non-profit/educational discount.
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While I do like the added enhancements offered by Virtuozzo, I, personally, can't afford their pricing structure... but I believe it to be fair... but probably less competitively priced in today's virtualization marketplace than... say six months ago.
For those, like me, not afraid of the command line... OpenVZ is fantastic... and while I haven't found a way to duplicate all of the features of the Virtuozzo GUI tools with OpenVZ's CLI commands and other system CLI tools, thus far I've been able to do a pretty good job without them. I have one guy using Webmin inside a VPS but I'm not really fond of that. I don't have a ton of deployments so OpenVZ has been fine... but I imagine if I had hundreds of VPSes to manage, I would find Virtuozzo a must.
I do thank SWsoft for opening up Virtuozzo by starting the OpenVZ project... but honestly, since it uses the Linux kernel as a base, could it legally have existed any other way?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 30, 2006 03:57 AMOne thing I don't like about Virtuozzo is, like several other software companies out there, they don't list outright prices on their products page... they have a "contact sales person for quote" operations, and I find that really annoying. I got a quote from them and it didn't say anything about keeping it private so I'll share it here for those who might be interested:
- - - - -
Virtuozzo Server License:
$1000 per CPU
Virtuozzo Management Console VZMC (GUI based)
Single Server License $200 per seat.
Unlimited server license $1000 per seat
Virtuozzo Control Center VZCC (web-based management)
Single Server License $300 per seat
Support (annual fee):
Silver: email during business day 2 CPU $400 / 4 CPU $600
Gold: phone + email during business day 2 CPU $600 / 4 CPU $900
Platinum: phone + email 24/7 2 CPU $900 / 4 CPU $1,350
2 Notes:
a) If you have hyper-threading or multi-core processors it still counts as 1 CPU
b) We do offer a 25% non-profit/educational discount.
- - - - -
While I do like the added enhancements offered by Virtuozzo, I, personally, can't afford their pricing structure... but I believe it to be fair... but probably less competitively priced in today's virtualization marketplace than... say six months ago.
For those, like me, not afraid of the command line... OpenVZ is fantastic... and while I haven't found a way to duplicate all of the features of the Virtuozzo GUI tools with OpenVZ's CLI commands and other system CLI tools, thus far I've been able to do a pretty good job without them. I have one guy using Webmin inside a VPS but I'm not really fond of that. I don't have a ton of deployments so OpenVZ has been fine... but I imagine if I had hundreds of VPSes to manage, I would find Virtuozzo a must.
I do thank SWsoft for opening up Virtuozzo by starting the OpenVZ project... but honestly, since it uses the Linux kernel as a base, could it legally have existed any other way?
Scott in Montana
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