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Jan Baran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Specialist at Uczelnia Techniczno-Handlowa im. Heleny Chodkowskiej w Warszawie
Real User
Top 20
There is no cost, it is stable, and easy to set up
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is stable."
  • "The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."

What is our primary use case?

The solution is used for virtualization, web servers, databases, and S3 storage spaces.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that the solution is free of cost.

What needs improvement?

The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for several years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. I have not had any issues in the last two years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is only one node, so it is not scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There is no subscription required for Proxmox VE.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We require 15 people for the deployment and maintenance of the solution including two developers.

We have around 400 web visitors that are supported by the solution per day.

We have two environments. We run one with Proxmox VE and the other with VMware.

I recommend the solution to others.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Engineer at Lite-On Technology Corp
Real User
Top 5
Highly stable and good option for beginners
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
  • "The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone.

What needs improvement?

The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Proxmox VE for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Proxmox VE is highly stable.

I rate the stability of Proxmox VE a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution can scale but it is not perfect.

We use this solution in the branch office in Beijing. We have approximately 25 people in the office and 15 of them will use something built on Proxmox VE.

I rate the scalability of Proxmox VE a seven out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I have not used the support from Proxmox VE.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not use a similar solution prior to Proxmox VE.

How was the initial setup?

It's straightforward to get started with Proxmox VE, but if you want to do something more advanced, it can become complex. The installation process is simple as long as you set up the cluster correctly. Setting up the cluster is straightforward, but when you try to do something more advanced, the complexity increases significantly.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are using the free community version of Proxmox VE.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated VMware ESXi and oVirt from Red Hat before choosing Proxmox VE.

What other advice do I have?

Proxmox VE and VMware ESXi are great options for beginners. I have some experience with Linux, which is sufficient for setting up the Proxmox VE environment and VMware ESXi. These two solutions are ideal choices for a small office.

I rate Proxmox VE a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Head of the Systems Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Sede Esmeraldas
Real User
Open-source, free to use, and easy to set up
Pros and Cons
  • "The virtualization is good."
  • "It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."

What is our primary use case?

It's an open-source solution for virtualizing. It’s a server virtualization software. Everything that's work or life is managed by Proxmox.

How has it helped my organization?

It's a tool that opens doors so that we don't need to pay any fees. This is a good thing. It's helping us to use its resources with the server we have. If there's none, especially it's increasing productivity, it's a handy tool to help manage things.

What is most valuable?

The virtualization is good.

It’s open-source and free to use.

The product helps us utilize resources better.

Proxmox is a good solution for on-premise managing service and with machines.

The solution is easy to set up.

What needs improvement?

We’d like them to ensure there is an easy migration towards the cloud, which is where we’re moving. Right now, we are on-premises. We’d like to have a nice, simple interface to synchronize through the cloud.

It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions.

For how long have I used the solution?

We’ve used the solution for the last five years now. It’s been a while.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I haven’t had any issues with stability just yet. We haven’t had any downtime from anything Proxmox has caused. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn’t crash or freeze.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It’s quite a scalable solution. We are happy with how much it can expand. It’s easy to add a new node.

We currently have three people using the product. They administer the solution.

We do not plan to increase usage right now. We already use it 100% in the places we can. We can’t use it any more than we do.

How are customer service and support?

I’ve never used customer service in the past. I can’t speak to how helpful or responsive they are.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did previously work with Citrix. We moved to this solution for a better user interface and stability. Citrix also changed the way it handled licensing. We preferred Proxmox’s licensing approach.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is quite straightforward. It isn't that complex. I’d rate it at a one or a two in terms of complexity, on a scale from one to five.

The deployment depends a bit on how many nodes or servers you have. You want to get into the cluster. This depends on the month's amount of time, however, we have half a day for a server. For me, it takes a little bit of time. You need a half-day per node, per server. Maybe even less.

While maintenance is always necessary, I would say we would invest more or less a day a month just to maintain it and that would entail checking logs and so on. It doesn’t require heavy maintenance.

What about the implementation team?

We handled the initial setup completely in-house. We didn’t need any outside assistance from any integrators or consultants.

What was our ROI?

ROI is hard to calculate. It’s a free solution and, as we do everything in-house, we have to measure the time we need to actually dominate the solution, however, it's really very little time.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This solution is open-source. We use only open-source solutions without any services. We handled everything in-house. There are no licensing costs and no extra fees.

What other advice do I have?

I’m a customer and an end-user.

We’re about to migrate over to the 7.2 version from our current version. We have two clusters with servers we are managing with Proxmox.

I’d advise potential new users to just check it out and try it. The best thing to do is to set up a small installation or maybe mount it on a virtual box and play with it to see what t can do. It’s quite easy to start with.

I’d rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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OzgurEkinci1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Executive at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Reseller
Top 10
The product is not scalable and has performance issues, though it is free and the support costs are reasonable
Pros and Cons
  • "KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
  • "We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."

What is our primary use case?

We are cloud providers. We install the product to serve our customers.

What is most valuable?

KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution.

What needs improvement?

We are having some problems with the product. It is suitable for small companies with 20 to 100 servers. My organization has more than 2500 servers in the hypervisor platform. We have problems when we try to migrate some servers to Proxmox. We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance. We are considering migrating all the servers back to VMware. The product must improve the disk performance and disc issues in general. The servers in Proxmox freeze sometimes. The file systems become read-only file systems after we restart the server. These are the main problems we are having nowadays.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s stability a five out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s scalability a three out of ten. We set up 50 servers in our environment, which worked well. Then, when the virtual server numbers increased to 100, it worked fine. Later, when it was around 200 to 300, the performance got worse. It is getting worse with time. The more we scale, the more we have problems. Currently, we have 300 to 350 virtual servers. Our customers are small businesses.

How are customer service and support?

We have trouble getting help from the support team.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Negative

How was the initial setup?

I rate the ease of setup a four or five out of ten. The initial setup is not exactly difficult, but it is not easy either.

What about the implementation team?

If the deployment is not very detailed, it takes us one day.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate the pricing a three out of ten. The product is free. There is no licensing fee. However, we do have to pay to get support. The support costs are reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

I am using the latest version of the solution. I would recommend the solution for small businesses. I would not recommend it for medium and large enterprises. Overall, I rate the product a four out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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GiovanniRamirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Xerif
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Fairly priced and provides very good security
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows customers to use the power of KVM easily."
  • "Proxmox VE editions should be made available to other Linux distributions because they are only attached to Debian."

What is our primary use case?

Proxmox is a virtual machine and container suite with everything in one place. It does not use Docker directly but uses a specific tool called LXC for containers. They also use it with KVM to offer customers a unified and easy-to-use graphical tool along with a very powerful command line suite of tools for visualization.

Proxmox is from Germany. It is a free product that has all the features, just like the commercial license. The difference is that the customer has access to additional repositories in commercially licensed versions. These include extra plug-ins and capabilities that eventually are used in a production environment.

The free or community edition has a complete suite of virtualization tools and high availability capabilities to provide a complete scenario for production, testing, etc. Proxmox VE is a very, very good product. Proxmox VE is a Debian Linux-based product that can be downloaded on an ISO archive or installed in a Debian Linux environment that the customer already has.

What is most valuable?

The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows customers to use the power of KVM easily. KVM is a very powerful and difficult tool to use, but Proxmox VE makes it easy.

What needs improvement?

Proxmox VE editions should be made available to other Linux distributions because they are only attached to Debian. There are people unfamiliar with Debian or have no environment with Debian. It would be very nice if Proxmox VE could eventually port to other Linux distributions.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Proxmox VE for ten years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Proxmox VE is a very stable solution.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Proxmox VE is a very scalable solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability ten out of ten.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution’s pricing is very fair. The solution's pricing is cheaper than other solutions like VMware, Hyper-V, or Oracle.

What other advice do I have?

Since Proxmox VE has its own firewall, I can use it eventually to manage access to my different virtual machines and containers. The solution provides very good security.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

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AmirFahmy - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO And Senior Cloud Engineer at Kamena
Real User
Top 5
Useful storage, straightforward implementation, and helpful community support
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
  • "Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."

What is our primary use case?

I'm using Proxmox VE for virtual machines on three servers, mainly for the database and the application and email server.

How has it helped my organization?

High availability and self healing 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage.

What needs improvement?

Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better.

I think it support esxi migration tools which is awesome 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Proxmox VE for approximately  7 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Proxmox VE is highly stable, it is a great solution as a hypervisor.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Proxmox VE is good.

We have approximately three administrators that use the solution. We do not have plans to increase the usage.

We have approximately 20 virtual machines on the Proxmox VE server.

How are customer service and support?

I have not needed direct support from Proxmox VE. I have found the community support enough.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I switched from VMware to Proxmox VE.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Proxmox VE was straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There is an annual license to use Proxmox VE and it is approximately $90. There are not any additional costs.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Esxi 

xenserver

What other advice do I have?

I rate Proxmox VE a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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IT supervisor at Fox-it solutions KG
Real User
Reliable, easy to deploy, and offers great out-of-the-box functionality
Pros and Cons
  • "You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
  • "The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for general virtualization for all sorts of services. 

What is most valuable?

The out-of-the-box functionality is great for containers. 

You can easily migrate VMs between hosts.

The hyper-converged solution with the CEPH cluster is very nice. 

It is stable. 

The solution can scale very well.

The deployment is fast and easy.

What needs improvement?

The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved. If there is a non-English operating system, we run into issues.

We'd like to be able to replicate on the same data. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I used the solution for about a year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. We haven't had any stability issues. It does not crash or freeze. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's extremely scalable. I'd rate the ability to extend ten out of ten. 

We have about 25 users on the solution right now. We will increase usage in the future. 

How are customer service and support?

Support is a paid service. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We've also used Hyper-V and VMware. We switched based on cost and functionality.

How was the initial setup?

It is very easy to implement. I'd rate it ten out of ten in terms of ease of setup. 

The deployment itself only takes an hour.

What about the implementation team?

I handled the setup in-house without the help of an outside vendor.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is pretty affordable. It costs less than Hyper-V and VMware. If you want to have support from the vendor, you need to buy a subscription. 

What other advice do I have?

We have been using the latest version of the solution. 

We are an IT company and selling it to customers. 

I'd advise others to just do enough planning before they deploy so everything is ready so that the system runs smoothly.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Scientist at ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation
Real User
Reasonably priced with an easy setup and good plugins
Pros and Cons
  • "It's been a stable solution."
  • "We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."

What is most valuable?

The initial setup was very easy.

We use the inventory aspect of the solution. It's not just a platform meant for network monitoring. We also use it for inventory maintenance also. For example, I can know if a server was down and for how long. I can see the performance. 

There are advanced plugins that are available. We can extend our network through these. 

There are models written in C as well.

It's been a stable solution. 

We can scale the solution if we need to. 

The pricing is quite reasonable. 

What needs improvement?

We are not fully satisfied with the solution. 

We have some streams of data from different channels. We have to try to figure out how to monitor everything. There's no great integration of everything. We are not able to identify everything. 

We are only just able to see ICMP and TCP checks happening.

Some systems are there which don't have protocol support. 

The templates and reporting could be better.

We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using the solution for four to five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have found the product to be scalable. 

Our IP team, security, and monitoring are the only people using the solution. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used to other products also. However, this product is better actually. In terms of display metrics, et cetera, the infrastructure, and geo-mapping as well as developing the dashboard and all the additional features have been good.

How was the initial setup?

The solution is simple to set up. There are certain credentials and you simply provide them. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price is good. It is very manageable. The licensing is yearly.

What other advice do I have?

We are end-users. 

We use the solution within our own network. It's not public. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

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