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.
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The virtualization is good."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"It's been a stable solution."
"The solution has good high availability."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"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."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"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."
"Its user interface can be improved. In the version that I am using, not all functions can be performed by using the UI. There can be some improvement on that. I'm assuming that it has already been improved in the latest version."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 24 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 7.4, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.4. 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 "Feature rich, good compatibility, and impressive fuctionality". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Hyper-V vs. Proxmox VE report.
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