We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Proxmox VE, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"I have a program on my old machine with 380 events, but I need to create new events. This is much easier to do with VFXTHs, and I have the skills to do it. I also have two VPNs running on the old machine, which I can use to get started."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The product offers good stability."
"The solution has high availability."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"The performance is efficient."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"It's one of those things for me to move things on to the cloud. It's not so easy. I am always on the laptop and have to monitor that because if you want to make strides; you need to stay online."
"It is a good solution, but it is very complicated in some ways. It is not easy. You must have experience in the console mode to do some configurations. A lot of documentation and YouTube videos are available that you can use to learn about it."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"Proxmox VE needs to make a deal with Veeam. I was also unable to make version upgrades. I have also encountered backup problems."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"I know VMWare has this Operations Manager. I know that it comes at a price because VMWare normally wants to charge for everything in the software. But I'm not seeing all the features of the Operations Manager. I only see a few features. If all the features can be included in one package, that would be good."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."