We performed a comparison between VMware vSphere 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: VMware vSphere is highly regarded for its extensive range of features, user-friendly interface, and scalability. However, users want improved backup features, integration capabilities, and documentation. Proxmox VE is valued for its simplicity, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Users recommend automating certain processes, enhancing the user interface and documentation, and addressing compatibility.
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"The virtualization is good."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"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."
"It's very user-friendly."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The documentation is very good."
"It is easy to use."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"From the interface, you see how much CPU utilization and RAM utilization that each one of those hosts is giving you. You can tell ahead of time when you need to start expanding the environment. And with VMotion, you expand the environment and then let DRS have at it and walk away."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"It could have more security updates such as when a new threat is coming into market."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"Support for the product is not good enough."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Proxmox VE is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Proxmox VE is most compared with Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Proxmox VE vs. VMware vSphere report.
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