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.
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"The solution is easy to install. It can run on a lot of different types of hardware. Creating virtual machines with it is really easy."
"It is a community-based solution."
"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)."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"I can't speak to any improvements. It is not lacking features."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"The scalability could be better."
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.