Canonical LXD vs. OpenVZ

Canonical LXD

Canonical LXD

1 Reviews and Ratings

OpenVZ

OpenVZ

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Canonical LXD	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Canonical LXD is a Linux container hypervisor.	N/A
OpenVZ	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux supported by Virtuozzo and fundamental to that company's commercial offering. It is open source and free.	$0 per month

Pricing

Canonical LXD

OpenVZ

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Canonical LXD	OpenVZ
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Canonical LXD	OpenVZ

Features

Canonical LXD

OpenVZ

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Canonical LXD - Ratings	OpenVZ 9.1 1 Ratings 12% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Canonical LXD	OpenVZ
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.0 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Canonical LXD	OpenVZ
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Canonical LXD	OpenVZ
Likelihood to Recommend	Canonical Ltd No answers on this topic	Virtuozzo If you are considering to use Docker and Kubernetes then you can give a try to OpenVZ and Proxmox. It is a good alternative and it is as good as Docker and Kubernetes Incentivized Vadim Kuts DevOps Engineer Read full review
Pros	Canonical Ltd No answers on this topic	Virtuozzo It is container-based virtualization It is not resource-heavy It is better then KVM Incentivized Vadim Kuts DevOps Engineer Read full review
Cons	Canonical Ltd No answers on this topic	Virtuozzo Since it is a container-based solution, you can't run any other OS, except for Linux It is not so popular as Docker, but it's not that bad Incentivized Vadim Kuts DevOps Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Canonical Ltd No answers on this topic	Virtuozzo Kubernetes and Docker are de-facto standards today, but I think that OpenVZ and Proxmox are better solutions Incentivized Vadim Kuts DevOps Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Canonical Ltd No answers on this topic	Virtuozzo It's free, so you can try it and figure out if it suited for your needs Incentivized Vadim Kuts DevOps Engineer Read full review
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