We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Proxmox VE is promising but still lacks some enterprise features. Citrix Hypervisor is a more mature and robust solution and therefore is the clear winner in this comparison.
"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"The tool has very good performance."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"The solution has good high availability."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and VMware Workstation. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Proxmox VE report.
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You should go with Proxmox for many reasons, including not needing a specific Windows Application to manage it, where with Proxmox you can manage all with a browser. Also, Proxmox has a native integrated Ceph Storage control.