Proxmox VE Reviews

I am using this solution for the virtualization of many servers. I have its latest version.

The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable.

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.

I have been using this solution for one year.

It is stable.

I have not scaled it. What I have covers all my needs. In two or three years, I will see if I need to scale it.

I have local technical support, and it is excellent.

It is complicated to set up. It took us one week.

For implementing this solution, you must have technical support. 

I would rate Proxmox VE a 10 out of 10. It is an excellent and complete solution. I really like it.

We are implementers and we implement solutions for our customers.

We tested Proxmox VE as a solution to build our applications

There are many features included with Proxmox.

The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve.

The support is an area in need of improvement.

I would like to see support for other container technologies such as Kubernetes, as well as other platforms.

If they had local container support, it would be very good for Proxmox.

It's a stable solution.

We have 10 people in our organization who are using this solution.

We have plans to increase our usage.

They provide medium level support. Support needs improvement.

Previously, we were using VMware vSphere. We went with Proxmox because of the price and the features.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was very simple.

It's an open-source solution that can be used free of cost.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I primarily use Proxmox for training in university. I use its virtual environment.

The availability of the platform is okay.

If we compare Proxmox with VMware, VMware provides an environment with a client. And Proxmox provides us an environment with a web client. Most important things for me. And Proxmox uses a middle person with an improviser.

Some items that we use within this solution are not available in other virtual environments.

The solution works well with Linux based systems.

There's a SPICE protocol that's very useful in managing aspects of Proxmox.

The product is pretty easy to install.

The solution is open source and free to use.

The availability of the solution could be a bit better.

I've used the solution for about three years or so.

Sometimes I see the stability can cause little problems. I've noticed that, when I use, I merge two, three, or four virtual machines, and when I merge all of these machines at the same time, we have some running slowly. Even if I use the virtual environment I see things running slowly sometimes.

The scalability is okay. If a company wants to scale it, they can.

I've rarely contacted technical support. I have a pretty good competence with Proxmox at this point in time.

We also use VMware or sometimes Citrix as well. We use a variety of virtual environments and compare them. I use them as learning devices for my students.

If you look at the overall market, VMware is the best in terms of offering and popularity, however, I personally prefer Proxmox and will continue to use it and advocate for it.

The installation is very easy. It's straightforward. It's not complex. This is due to the fact that it's an environment that depends on Linux with the version of the kernel in Linux.

When we install it the environment is so easy, we just have to put the image of the system and we choose the mode of installation. It's quite simple.

When we are in the environment, we just need to create an instance of a VM.

I use the open-source version of the solution. We build on a general public license. We don't pay for using the service. For us, as an open-source version, it's free. I'm not sure if there are other versions that cost more and what the pricing is. I've never looked into it.

I'm just an end-user of the solution. I don't have a business relationship with Proxmox. I use the product in my classroom as a learning aid.

I'd recommend the solution. It's been an invaluable learning resource for myself and my students. It works well and shows off the potential of virtual environments. I use it often for my classes and with my students as a teaching device.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this product at an eight. I would only give VMware a higher rating. It's definitely at the top of my list in terms of technology in this area.

We use the open-source version of Proxmox for automation and other uses, including LXC containers. We use it for my enterprise applications and to offer our hosted cloud-services.

Proxmox with Ceph Storage as HCI has given really peace of mind to Management & IT for regular hardware maintenance, with near to zero downtime or no downtime for most of VM & LXC container keeping in mind service running round-the-clock for customer.

The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage ZFS & Ceph, container based on LXC and everything else works out of the box. Additionally, it is a really stable, reliable, and scalable solution.

They have a good road map already in place, so I don't think there are any immediate challenges.

I don't have any real challenges about improvement here. (As most IT required features are included and they do have roadmap). Plus API & Command tool is lot helpful.

I personally keep exploring other players and backup/Restore/DR software.

And believe more advance features of backup/restore & DR Data Sync for Ceph  on GUI fronted would be added benefits for users coming from other platform.

On Security/Firewall/Software-Defined-Switch with more advance feature on webGUI would be also more helpful too.

I have been using Proxmox VE for more than six years.

Proxmox VE is an enterprise solution, it is used daily. Its regular maintenance is normal, the way you would maintain any normal infrastructure. There is nothing special or complex with it. We have a team of five people who maintain it, but there aren't any complex challenges.

My company is very small but I have more than 10,000 users accessing on ProxmoxVE Cluster. We provide the solution to other customers.

The thing about this solution is that is so stable I hardly need any technical support.

We used Raw Linux Virt-manger for per Server management for VM & LXC before, without any central management.

Everything has a learning curve, steps to watch, understand and explore. But with Proxmox there are hardly any challenges. I don't think the deployment took more than an hour.

Its was inhouse.

License & Support-subscription & running maintenance cost is bear minimum compare to other closed source solutions. We were able to use our other existing commodity server part of this cluster.

Recently, I have been a Proxmox reseller. I wanted to promote it in India because there is no reseller here. We are trying to promote Proxmox here because being open source it's not popular worldwide, although we have been using it in production for the last more than five or six years. We have been exploring Proxmox for small applications for more than seven, eight years.

Tried Xen, but was not comfortable.

With Proxmox VE you get everything in one box, including the ZFS & Ceph storage & LXC container technology. 

Even the support subscription is really good.

It's a wonderful open-source solution. It's out-of-the-box and it is easy to learn compared to other vendors. It is easy to deploy and maintain and you hardly have any trouble or challenges from the software. 

It provides peace of mind for management.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Proxmox VE a nine.

It is implemented in several Private Cloud Data Centers, from 5 to 16 nodes, from 256 GB RAM to 1 TB RAM, all using Supermicro Systems, running SQL servers, Application Servers ( SAP, Prothevs and some tailored Apps developed in house ) VDI and Files Repositories . all smooth and trouble free .

With live migration, there is no downtime when any node needs service or upgrades. Plus, when I need more memory, I just allocate it; more disk space? same. It is possible to administer almost anything remotely, now it takes months till a customer needs a weekend visit to service something, before Proxmox, it used to happens once a month!

Live migration :

Is simplifies the daily work, and reduces the downtime to nearly 0 .

Clonning and Snapshots :

Verry useful for development testing and backup .

Histogram about i/o, memory, CPU and network usage :

Helps to find the issue when some VM are running in some kind of bottleneck .

Mostly simplify web interface, simple things like the use of right mouse button to change VM attributes, make it more intuitive, but it is just cosmetic improvements, the core functions are all there.

Version 6.x improved the support for Containers to the PRO level .

re than 10 years, since version 1.6 all the way to version 6.2 

Never had any issue with stability, even in the very earliest stages of development...

Not for now, the 16 nodes per cluster limit have been removed in the 5.x release !

Customer Service: OK, in fact the little we've used it, the site documentation was really good.Technical Support: Same as above.

Yes, Citrix XEN Server and EMC VMWare Server. I left Citrix for security, there are too many "black box" in the binaries that cannot be audited. In the VMWare case, for licenses politics, it uses a "per socket" schema that punishes high density servers with 2 or 4 sockets .

Is is the tool of choice used in the entire Facebook infra-structure, so it must be "at least" good enough .

The first test was a little complex, in the time of the 1.4 version, but since the 2.0 version it is extremely simple, takes less then an hour to deploy a node and connect it to an existing cluster.

The 6.x release made things even easier, most maintenance tasks are now in the web interface

I am an IT consultant, and I do everything myself (with my team, we are 4 people!)

Outstanding, worth every single cent spent on it!

The deployment itself cost nothing, it is Opensource software! The monthly subscription costs 17 euros per node, and it covers anything we needed so far...There are more options, but it is more then our customers needed until now .

Several, From Red Hat to Ubuntu, and everything I can find with a Google search, I spent 6 months with these research and tests!

The Facebook contract came well after this tests .

Do it! The simplicity will surprise you!

We primarily use this solution to cover anything that VMware does.

The solution has made it so that I can operate things without having to spend thousands and thousands of dollars. It's saved my company a lot of money.

The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect.

The so-called free support that the solution offers doesn't allow you to access the repositories. If they would allow that access like they say they do it would be better. It does work for about a week and then it times out and never works again.

It would be preferable if they had a different viewing product other than VNC.

The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve.

I'd like to see more high availability capabilities.

I've been using the solution for a couple of years.

The solution is very stable. That's not a problem. I can't recall dealing with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand the service, it can do so easily.

We just have a handful of users on the solution. However, it fluctuates. Many users handle web servers and virtual guests.

Technical support has room for improvement. It would be nice to be able to call them and have conversations with them during stateside hours. Right now, that's not possible. Right now, it's more run through email and chats.

I'd rate their service seven out of ten. It's okay, but it could be better if calling them directly was an option.

We previously used Hyper-V and VMware, however, we switched to this solution mostly due to the costs involved in running the other options.

The initial setup isn't too bad, however, it's a bit complex. There's definitely a learning curve for people implementing it themselves.

The solution is very affordable in comparison to competitors.

We're simply customers. We don't have a business relationship with the solution.

We're currently using the latest version of the solution.

We use both cloud and on-premises deployment models.

The solution isn't too bad, and not too hard to figure out. Users considering taking on the solution can just watch some videos and train up a little bit. It will make it easier when it comes to setting everything up and understanding how to handle the solution.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It would be great if there was someone available in stateside hours instead of just German hours. Other than that, it offers pretty much everything we need at a pretty great price.

We use this solution for Linux servers and contain our VM operating system servers.

I would like to see an improvement in the virtualization itself. We use the physical servers for easier migrations, but the virtualization can be better.

The solution is very stable.

We haven't subscribed for technical support, so I can't tell you if they are good or not.

The initial setup was really straightforward and easy.

If I have to rate this solution, I will give it an eight out of ten. In the next version I would like to see differential packages. This version does not include that, so we have to use a third party or an opensource. Whenever we want to write a large, 500 gigabyte script to do differential packages for Proxmox VM, it is difficult to take a full package every day. So if that feature could be added in the future, it would be great.

We use this solution to host our database, and also the Nextcloud private-cloud solution.

We have an on-premises deployment.

The most valuable feature of this solution is migration.

If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier.

Not many people know about this product, so bulletins and advertising should be done to make people more aware of it.

This solution has been very good and very stable in this past that I have been using it.

I have not tried to add any additional servers, but I think that it will be scalable.

We have between twenty-five and thirty users.

I haven't needed technical support from Proxmox, but I think that everything is covered in the recommendations on the website and the community support.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup of this solution is not complex. 

We set up three nodes and fixed storage.

The deployment took us at most four hours.

I performed the deployment myself. I'm a guru.

This product is fantastic.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.