We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Hyper-V and Proxmox VE seem to have a more or less rating among users regarding ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support. In terms of features, users of Hyper-V weren’t satisfied with the recovery capabilities and the instability if the stack became bloated. On the other hand, users of Proxmox VE didn’t like the need to update manually but felt that the solution was young. Therefore, the bugs they experienced will hopefully have a solution with a future update.
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the speed. Additionally, I can modify the solution if needed because it is open-source and the integration of any kind of API and monitoring is hassle-free."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"Storage via SMB3."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, 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 Citrix Hypervisor. See our Hyper-V vs. Proxmox VE report.
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