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.
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"It's very user-friendly."
"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."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"The virtualization can be better."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
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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