We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Proxmox VE is promising but still lacks some enterprise features. Citrix Hypervisor is a more mature and robust solution and therefore is the clear winner in this comparison.
"The initial setup is easy."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"It's been a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"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)."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"The virtualization can be better."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and VMware Workstation. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Proxmox VE report.
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You should go with Proxmox for many reasons, including not needing a specific Windows Application to manage it, where with Proxmox you can manage all with a browser. Also, Proxmox has a native integrated Ceph Storage control.