Proxmox VE Reviews

I primarily use the solution for different virtual servers. I'm using it for snapshots and backups. 

The solution is free to use. It saves us money.

The community is very good if you need information or help.

We can have in-built containers and clustering, which is useful.

The solution has good high availability.

There are a few areas that are lacking. There needs to be a better GUI, for example. In some instances, you need to use the command line.

The scalability could be better.

I've used the solution for two and a half years. 

The solution is stable. I'd rate it 8.5 out of ten. We haven't had any issues with it at all. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

I have 15 servers running on the product.

The solution is scalable. I'd rate it seven out of ten. It could be better.

Only three people intervening in the actual solution, however, 300 to 400 people are using the computers that rely on Proxmox. 

I do not have plans to increase usage at this time. If I needed to, I would use this product.

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's free and open source. I'd rate it ten out of ten.

I've never used technical support, You do need to pay for it if you want actual support. Otherwise, you can use the community and that is free. 

We used the free version of ESXi, however, it didn't have very many features that we needed.

The initial setup is easier than anything I've done previously. It's not complex. It's straightforward. 

You can have this solution both on-premises and on the cloud.

It takes about half an hour to deploy. 

I just followed the instructions for the deployment and it was good. 

Only one person is needed to handle deployment. 

The solution can be done in-house. You just follow the guides provided. I personally didn't need any assistance with the process. 

If you are on a budget, it's best to go with Proxmox. It is free to use. However, if you want actual support, you need to pay for it.

I'm a user. I'm in charge of the server farm and doing the configurations for our company.

I might be down two sub-versions. I'm not on the latest version. 

The solution is used for virtualization, web servers, databases, and S3 storage spaces.

The most valuable feature is that the solution is free of cost.

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

I have been using the solution for several years.

The solution is stable. I have not had any issues in the last two years.

The solution is only one node, so it is not scalable.

The initial setup is straightforward.

There is no subscription required for Proxmox VE.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We require 15 people for the deployment and maintenance of the solution including two developers.

We have around 400 web visitors that are supported by the solution per day.

We have two environments. We run one with Proxmox VE and the other with VMware.

I recommend the solution to others.

The initial setup was very easy.

We use the inventory aspect of the solution. It's not just a platform meant for network monitoring. We also use it for inventory maintenance also. For example, I can know if a server was down and for how long. I can see the performance. 

There are advanced plugins that are available. We can extend our network through these. 

There are models written in C as well.

It's been a stable solution. 

We can scale the solution if we need to. 

The pricing is quite reasonable. 

We are not fully satisfied with the solution. 

We have some streams of data from different channels. We have to try to figure out how to monitor everything. There's no great integration of everything. We are not able to identify everything. 

We are only just able to see ICMP and TCP checks happening.

Some systems are there which don't have protocol support. 

The templates and reporting could be better.

We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues. 

We've been using the solution for four to five years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We have found the product to be scalable. 

Our IP team, security, and monitoring are the only people using the solution. 

We used to other products also. However, this product is better actually. In terms of display metrics, et cetera, the infrastructure, and geo-mapping as well as developing the dashboard and all the additional features have been good.

The solution is simple to set up. There are certain credentials and you simply provide them. 

The price is good. It is very manageable. The licensing is yearly.

We are end-users. 

We use the solution within our own network. It's not public. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

It's an open-source solution for virtualizing. It’s a server virtualization software. Everything that's work or life is managed by Proxmox.

It's a tool that opens doors so that we don't need to pay any fees. This is a good thing. It's helping us to use its resources with the server we have. If there's none, especially it's increasing productivity, it's a handy tool to help manage things.

The virtualization is good.

It’s open-source and free to use.

The product helps us utilize resources better.

Proxmox is a good solution for on-premise managing service and with machines.

The solution is easy to set up.

We’d like them to ensure there is an easy migration towards the cloud, which is where we’re moving. Right now, we are on-premises. We’d like to have a nice, simple interface to synchronize through the cloud.

It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions.

We’ve used the solution for the last five years now. It’s been a while.

I haven’t had any issues with stability just yet. We haven’t had any downtime from anything Proxmox has caused. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn’t crash or freeze.

It’s quite a scalable solution. We are happy with how much it can expand. It’s easy to add a new node.

We currently have three people using the product. They administer the solution.

We do not plan to increase usage right now. We already use it 100% in the places we can. We can’t use it any more than we do.

I’ve never used customer service in the past. I can’t speak to how helpful or responsive they are.

We did previously work with Citrix. We moved to this solution for a better user interface and stability. Citrix also changed the way it handled licensing. We preferred Proxmox’s licensing approach.

The initial setup is quite straightforward. It isn't that complex. I’d rate it at a one or a two in terms of complexity, on a scale from one to five.

The deployment depends a bit on how many nodes or servers you have. You want to get into the cluster. This depends on the month's amount of time, however, we have half a day for a server. For me, it takes a little bit of time. You need a half-day per node, per server. Maybe even less.

While maintenance is always necessary, I would say we would invest more or less a day a month just to maintain it and that would entail checking logs and so on. It doesn’t require heavy maintenance.

We handled the initial setup completely in-house. We didn’t need any outside assistance from any integrators or consultants.

ROI is hard to calculate. It’s a free solution and, as we do everything in-house, we have to measure the time we need to actually dominate the solution, however, it's really very little time.

This solution is open-source. We use only open-source solutions without any services. We handled everything in-house. There are no licensing costs and no extra fees.

I’m a customer and an end-user.

We’re about to migrate over to the 7.2 version from our current version. We have two clusters with servers we are managing with Proxmox.

I’d advise potential new users to just check it out and try it. The best thing to do is to set up a small installation or maybe mount it on a virtual box and play with it to see what t can do. It’s quite easy to start with.

I’d rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We are now running it in full HA production vs XCP-NG and VMWware 6.7u3p We have multiple VMs on 6 hosts for Proxmox, 5 hosts on XCP-NG, and 12 Hosts for VMware.

Proxmox Config: 6X 2697V2 128GB ram each / 24TB SSD for CEPH (HP S700 PRO). XCP-NG Config: 5X2690V3 128GB each/12TB SSD (Samsung 860 Pro).

VMware Config: HP BLADE 12X2690V3 256GB each/2 SAN with 24X1TB SSD (S700 PRO) and total usable 1PB with multiple DAS for storage.

Comparing the CEPH to vSAN is about the same (wasn't running it in production but the performance was greater with a cheap drive on Proxmox, performance with SAS drives is the same).

XO-SAN was a way to mix a whole mismatch of drive and still get good performance but I would doubt the reliability.

The performance and compatibility are really pushing some users like community organizations to not buy software licenses anymore (why buy a $1000 license for an old appliance when we can get the same functionality for free on another software and still get good performance). Reliability is still advertised for our clients.

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). Containers are awesome fo saving a lot of resources (like 100-200mb for an isolated service vs a whole VM (can't run full HA though). It also works on older hardware (unlike VMware) so community clients are able to afford that unlike a new $10000 entry-level server with the config.

It's as stable as VMware or XCP-NG if you have a licence (much cheaper than VMware but XCP-Ng is totally free if you don't need functionality like clustering, XO-SAN, VCenter, etc.)

I think the team is already doing 150% on improvements (started from 4.6 and now on the 6.2-6 version and every 3-4 weeks we are given new functions to compete with all hypervisors competitors). Releases are much faster than VMware or XCP-NG but be aware unless you have a paid support licence, then you're a non-production client (updates are tested on you so don't expect 100% uptime without giving it some love).

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

I would like to get new containers and/or new stuff that, unlike the leader VMware, is so new that it would now lead the market.

2.5 years VS XCP-NG and VMware

i think for all SMBs, this is perfect.

I have some clients going for the support option (mostly community) but even if the community support advertises no estimated response time, all issues have been resolved on the same day (can't be certified though as they aren't posting if they're actually helping on this plan).

We previously used VMware and XCP-NG.

The setup is literraly 10 mins. If you have VLANs or anything it's so easier than VMware.

I have implemented for our team, in fact, we have searched a lot for community organisms and found that like three years ago.  We were testing this solution for 6 months and compared it to our **TO GO SOLUTION (VMWare 6.7).  We have also tested XCP-NG in that same process.

ROI is just reusing old VMWare hardware for 99% of my clients.

It is so affordable if you're good with Linux.

We also evaluated XCP-NG.

Best free and stable solution on the market for me.

I'm using Proxmox VE for virtual machines on three servers, mainly for the database and the application and email server.

High availability and self healing 

The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage.

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.

I think it support esxi migration tools which is awesome 

I have been using Proxmox VE for approximately  7 years.

Proxmox VE is highly stable, it is a great solution as a hypervisor.

The scalability of Proxmox VE is good.

We have approximately three administrators that use the solution. We do not have plans to increase the usage.

We have approximately 20 virtual machines on the Proxmox VE server.

I have not needed direct support from Proxmox VE. I have found the community support enough.

I switched from VMware to Proxmox VE.

The initial setup of Proxmox VE was straightforward.

There is an annual license to use Proxmox VE and it is approximately $90. There are not any additional costs.

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I rate Proxmox VE a ten out of ten.

My company uses Proxmox VE for VDI, so we basically use it for Windows VDI, and a few of our Linux servers run on it.

My company has benefited from the use of Proxmox VE since it has helped us reduce our costs. Earlier in my company, we were using VMware. My organization's costs related to operations were on the higher side when we were using VMware, especially when it came to areas related to management and updates. With VMware, you need to have an active subscription to run a few basic VMs and other stuff, but on Proxmox VE, you don't need to pay for any overhead costs. You only need to pay for support from Proxmox VE, and otherwise, it is a completely free solution.

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that my company gets to use the open-source version of the product while also getting better features like clustering and redundancy. Compared to the other products in the market, Proxmox VE has an easier setup phase and can be easily managed.

Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring. From an improvement perspective, Proxmox VE can offer a better interface for monitoring. Other products like Nutanix offer better monitoring capabilities than Proxmox VE. Proxmox VE doesn't have any other product integrated with it for storage. My company has to look for products from other vendors to take care of the storage part in Proxmox VE. Proxmox can offer its users a storage solution integrated with Proxmox VE.

Feature-wise, the console was the only place where my company saw an issue with Proxmox VE. The console provided by Proxmox VE is not much of a console meant for virtual machines. With Proxmox VE, once you have deployed the virtual machines, you realize that the initial console is not very good, because of which the graphics may seem boring. My company also finds many compatibility issues with the tools you need to install for the virtual machines to work in Proxmox VE, like the drivers and other stuff. My company has to look into many logs and other sources to resolve the compatibility issues related to Proxmox VE. In Proxmox VE, my company installs ISO when the setup phase of a virtual machine is carried out. One of the problems my company faced with Proxmox VE was installing a server with MySQL since it didn't function as an out-of-the-box product, because of which we had to shut down the machine and go through a configuration process. The default processor provided by Proxmox doesn't work.

I have been using Proxmox VE for a year.

It is a stable solution. My company does face some performance-related issues with Proxmox VE, but I feel that such issues are mostly related to hardware and not the solution.

My company hasn't used the scalability options provided by the solution because our hardware is currently fixed. My company operates on an on-premises model, and I don't know how we can avail of the scalability options if we plan to move to a higher version of the hardware.

My company has only two servers running for Proxmox, but we have about a hundred VDIs or virtual machines that run on Proxmox.

I have experience with VMware. We had VMware in our company, which is only for service and not for the VDI part. We did not continue with VMware in our company because it was not an open-source platform. My company mostly prefers to stay on open-source platforms over paid tools.

The initial setup of Proxmox VE was very easy. With Proxmox VE, the installation, clustering, and configuration parts are easy.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model. My company plans to deploy the solution on the cloud in the future.

For the deployment process of Proxmox VE, since my company migrated from VMware to Proxmox VE, we rely on our own hardware. The deployment process didn't require much effort. In our company, we were able to handle the workload related to the deployment process easily.

The migration process from VMware to Proxmox VE was completed in a period of 15 to 20 days. In my company, we had very little workload on VMware. To work on the VDI part in Proxmox VE, my company had to do a fresh setup, meaning we had to start from scratch since we weren't using it with VMware. After looking at the solutions available in the market, my company decided to go ahead with Proxmox VE.

It is an open-source platform.

As a part of my company's evaluation process, we tested VMware.

The solution's maintenance part was very easy.

I recommend Proxmox VE to others considering the online community support and because it is available as an open-source product.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable. For a free solution, it provides plenty of features that we find on VWware. We can test networks with the solution. We cannot do these tasks on consumer-grade virtualization services like Openbox or Windows Hyper-V. I found the documentation pretty complete. I was able to find pretty much everything.

It is difficult to remove a virtual machine. Also, it should be easier to find what we remove.

I have been using the solution for three months.

The solution is stable. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

The initial setup was straightforward and pretty easy. It took us an hour to deploy the first VM. It was pretty fast.

The solution does not require any maintenance yet.

The tool is free.

I just started to configure the product. I will set up the second server next week, so I’ll see how scalable the solution is. I do not know it yet. I didn’t have time to use the full solution to see what could be improved. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.