Hyper-V vs Proxmox VE comparison

Hyper-V

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 20, 2022

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.

Ease of Deployment: For the most part, users of both Hyper-V and Proxmox VE felt that deployment was relatively easy and didn’t take long at all to set up and deploy.
Features: Users of Hyper-V reported the best features to be its stability, ease of use, user-friendliness, and the ability to do checkpoints and roll back to the checkpoint. However, users also lament the need for better cloud integration, disastrous recovery capabilities, and instability if the load is too high.

Users of Proxmox VE liked that the software is easy to use, has a simple setup and good performance, and has a good backup service. However, users didn’t like that certain processes weren’t automatic, like manually updating. They also felt that moving things to the cloud was difficult and, because it's a young solution, there are some bugs.
Pricing: Reviewers of Hyper-V felt the pricing was great, especially for customers working with budget restraints. Users of Proxmox VE found it very affordable.
Service and Support: Users of Hyper-V had mixed reviews when it came to technical support. Half of them found the support to be excellent, while the others felt there was room for improvement. Most users of Proxmox VE were happy with the support, though there were a few who thought it needed improvement.

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.

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Categories and Ranking

Hyper-V

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

134

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Proxmox VE

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of Hyper-V is 15.7%, down from 17.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Proxmox VE is 17.3%, down from 21.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Vineeth Marar

Cloud solution architect at 0

Feb 20, 2024

Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users

There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed. If Hyper-V could be more user-friendly with more detailed logging during live migrations, it would be a significant improvement for users. For example, let's say a VM fails to start. The error message might mention a "parameter interrupt" failure, but it wouldn't tell you which specific parameter is causing the issue. These are the kinds of minor details that can be improved to make things easier for end users. With more specific error messages, users could readily identify a configuration issue in a parameter, fix it themselves, and get the VM running. But without clear information, they have to raise a support ticket and wait for support personnel to analyze logs and potentially use source code tracing to identify the problem. This can be a time-consuming process. By providing more user-friendly error messages, we can avoid these situations and empower users to resolve issues independently. That's one immediate improvement.

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Benjamin Fuchs

IT supervisor at Fox-it solutions KG

Mar 20, 2023

Reliable, easy to deploy, and offers great out-of-the-box functionality

We primarily use the solution for general virtualization for all sorts of services. The out-of-the-box functionality is great for containers. You can easily migrate VMs between hosts. The hyper-converged solution with the CEPH cluster is very nice. It is stable. The solution can scale very…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"It is good for small installations."

"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."

"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."

"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."

"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."

"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."

"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."

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"The solution is stable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."

"It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does."

"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."

"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."

"Many of my customers are moving away from VMware because of its acquisition by another company, which has resulted in skyrocketing prices, making it very expensive and viable only for larger enterprises."

"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."

"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."

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Cons

"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."

"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."

"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."

"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."

"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."

"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."

"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."

"Storage via SMB3."

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"There should be a helm feature for managing Kubernetes ports directly from the Proxmox traffic interface."

"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."

"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."

"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."

"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"

"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."

"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."

"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with pricing or licensing of the product."

"The pricing is competitive, and a bit less than other options on the market."

"In terms of the licensing, if you are using Microsoft Windows 100%, it is OK. But, when you start mixing other environments, it becomes quite tricky."

"Hyper-V is part of Windows Server, so there are no extra costs for the product."

"The pricing and licensing is fine."

"The licensing is pretty straightforward."

"Microsoft Hyper-V is not expensive and is easy to set up."

"Once we bought the datacenter version of the server, we did away with worrying about the cost of licensing our VMs separately"

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"I cannot subscribe to Proxmox VE's support because it is expensive."

"The only thing you pay for is support and it is between $2,500 and $3,000 a year. It depends on the support plan you choose. Support is optional."

"I am not aware of the licensing cost, but there is a cost for support."

"Since Proxmox is open-source, it's freely available."

"The cost is excellent."

"There is no subscription required for Proxmox VE."

"It is an open-source platform."

"This is a free open-source solution."

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Technology Consultant, ASEAN at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 10, 2015

Hyper-V 2012 R2 vs. VMware vSphere 5.5

I was won with Hyper-V 2012R2 recently and the table below based on customer RFP (edited). This articles all about technical, there is not related with TCO/ROI, licensing cost, “political”, etc. Another to noted is the Windows Server 2012 licenses is based on 2 socket CPU, meanwhile…

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Educational Organization

33%

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11%

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Questions from the Community

How does KVM compare with Hyper-V?

KVM is better. But let's just look at the software instead of judging. Hyper-V was a free solution from Microsoft to virtualize Server or Client OS as it is a feature on Windows Server since 2008 a...

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How does Proxmox VE compare with Hyper-V?

One of the best things about Proxmox VE is that it is open-source and very inexpensive. You get all of the same features as with the more well-known products. Proxmox VE is very easy to deploy - it...

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What do you like most about Hyper-V?

The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy.

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Proxmox vs ESXi/vSphere: What is your experience?

For me the biggest impact is the cost of licensing in the case of VMware despite its overall intuitiveness and ease of handling and management. However, KVM-based Open Source solutions are becoming...

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Proxmox VE or KVM?

I use Proxmox VE and have been very happy with it. In my opinion, it is a complete and stable solution with excellent tools for managing servers. It has a lot of different features, and I also love...

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What do you like most about Proxmox VE?

It is a community-based solution.

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Comparisons

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Compared 31% of the time

VMware Workstation vs Hyper-V

Compared 19% of the time

Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs Hyper-V

Compared 9% of the time

KVM vs Hyper-V

Compared 9% of the time

Oracle VM VirtualBox vs Hyper-V

Compared 7% of the time

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VMware vSphere vs Proxmox VE

Compared 20% of the time

Oracle VM VirtualBox vs Proxmox VE

Compared 19% of the time

KVM vs Proxmox VE

Compared 13% of the time

Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs Proxmox VE

Compared 11% of the time

Citrix Hypervisor vs Proxmox VE

Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization tool that allows users to create virtual computer environments with multiple operating systems on a single physical server. Each virtual machine has computer parts, such as memory, processor, storage, and networking, and acts like a standard computer - running its own operating system and software programs. Each component of the virtual machine can be configured to meet your specific requirements.

Hyper-V creates a cost-effective, stable, and productive server virtualization environment by running multiple operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and more, in parallel on one machine or server. Each virtual machine runs in its own isolated space, which means you can run many virtual machines simultaneously but independently of each other. This helps prevent problems such as a crash affecting the other workloads and enables different users to separately access various systems.

Benefits of Hyper-V

Simplify application testing: With Hyper-V you can easily add and remove operating systems from your virtual machines, enabling you to run and test your applications on each of them all from one single computer.
Minimize resource usage and scalability: Virtual machines are easier to manage than physical hardware and less expensive. You can also maximize your server use by allocating its resources more efficiently than you can with physical hardware alone.

Hyper-V key features:.

Replication and migration: Hyper-V can replicate virtual machines for backups onto different sites. Hyper-V also provides a migration tool for moving a virtual machine from one Hyper-V host to another without causing any downtime.
Remote connection: Hyper-V’s remote connectivity tool allows administrators to remotely access a virtual machine.
Security: Hyper-V keeps virtual machines secure from malware attacks, unauthorized access, and data breaching attempts.

Reviews from Real Users

Hyper-V stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its flexibility, its replication capabilities, and the fact that its virtual machines utilize a small amount of resources..

Liam L., the owner of a tech services company, writes, “It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage.”

Kevin E. an IT director at Homeland Technology Group, LLC, notes, “We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time.”

Proxmox VE is a complete virtualization management solution for servers. It is a powerful open-source platform and supports two virtualization technologies - KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for virtual machines and LXC for containers. Proxmox VE has a central user interface that allows you to manage not only VMs and containers, but also storage resources, network configuration, and high availability for clusters. It is enterprise-ready and is valued for its scalability and maximum flexibility, enabling you to virtualize very demanding workloads. Proxmox VE makes it possible for you to easily install, manage, and monitor hyper-converged (HCI) data centers.

Proxmox VE Key Features

The Proxmox VE platform has many powerful features, including:

pen-source software, high-available clusters, command line, fencing, a web-based management interface, flexible storage options, REST API, live/online migration, storage replication stack, software defined storage, virtualized networking, backup and restore, two-factor authentication, role-based administration, and VM templates and clones.

Proxmox VE Benefits

Some of the biggest benefits of Proxmox VE are:

Central management: To manage all tasks of your virtual data center, you can use the central, web-based management interface.
Unique multi-master design: Proxmox VE allows you to carry out maintenance tasks cluster wide, from any node.
Minimize downtime: With the integrated live/online migration feature, you can move running virtual machines from one Proxmox VE cluster node to another, without any downtime or noticeable effect from the end-user side.
Granular access: Using Proxmox VE’s role-based permission management system helps you define granular access to all objects.
Multiple authentication sources: Proxmox VE supports multiple authentication sources, including Linux PAM, an integrated Proxmox VE authentication server, LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, and OpenID Connect.
Several storage options: The Proxmox VE storage model is very flexible and the web interface allows you to add multiple storage types (LVM Group, iSCSI target, NFS Share, SMB/CIFS, Ceph RBD, Direct to iSCSI LUN, GlusterFS, CephFS).
Collaboration with Ceph: Proxmox VE fully integrates Ceph, giving you the ability to run and manage Ceph storage directly from any of your cluster nodes.
Scheduled backups: With Proxmox VE, backups can be scheduled so that they automatically run on specific days and times, for selectable nodes and guest systems.
IT infrastructure protection: Proxmox VE has a built-in firewall that works to protect your IT infrastructure. The firewall is completely customizable, allowing complex configurations via the GUI or CLI.

Reviews From Real Users

Here is some feedback from some of our users who are currently using the solution:

A PeerSpot user who is a director at a tech services company says, “The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility.”

Another PeerSpot user who is a head of IT operations at a tech services company mentions that "In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."

Deepen D., director and CTO at TechnoInfotech, expresses that "The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."

Sample Customers

Large customer base from all industries, all over the world. Two major Hyper-V customers are Telefonica and EmpireCLS.

Municipality of Trento, SwitchMIA, inDenova, Valmeita City Council, Alpha IT AS, Grupo Inversor Veracruzano S.A.P.I. de C.V. (GRIVER), Laut und Schoen, IT-Services - Hamburg e.K., KMI Learning, Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd., Serwise AG

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