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.
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"I like the functionality."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"It is a stable product."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"The solution's compatibility is very good with multiple operating systems. The moving systems are very good and migration is excellent. These are the most valuable features for us."
"The solution has good high availability."
"The template option allows us to build a desktop in a VM, then quickly deploy as a linked clone."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The solution is stable."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"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."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, 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 Citrix Hypervisor. See our Hyper-V vs. Proxmox VE report.
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