We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V, and Proxmox VE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"It is good for small installations."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"Ease of use, HA, internal 100gbps Virtio network, built-in backup (don't pay $1200 Veeam licence), support for multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM, no need to RDP in the VMs to do your stuff (Win, Linux and Mac with SPICE and using 6 screens here (11520*2160)."
"The virtualization is good."
"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."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"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."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult."
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
