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.
"It is good for small installations."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The solution's compatibility is very good with multiple operating systems. The moving systems are very good and migration is excellent. These are the most valuable features for us."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"The virtualization can be better."
"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 scalability could be better."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
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, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM 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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