Proxmox VE Reviews

This is a free version of VMware and that's why we're using it. It does everything that VMware can do and it's more flexible. We were looking for a virtual solution and we're a startup, so the cheapest is best. We are customers of Proxmox and I'm the technology operations manager. 

The feature I like best about this product is the fact that they have independent nodes. Proxmox is based on KVM and essentially you could lose a node. All the hosts that are running are evacuated elsewhere in the cluster and away you go. I have reduced infrastructure and I'm familiar with it because at the heart of the hypervisor is Debian Linux and I'm a Linux administrator. It didn't require learning a whole new platform and it's so easy to use. Proxmox will be in my toolbox forever, I love it.

This is a really great solution and the more VMware raises their costs, the more appealing it is. I'd be very nervous if I were one of the big companies because you're going to have administrators like myself discovering Proxmox and the cost is zero. With this solution, when something goes wrong, you Google it, you figure out the problem and fix it. Of course if you're an enterprise company, that's something else.

The product should have more enterprise features, perhaps DRS. I don't think Proxmox has the ability to sense that a host is running hot and needs to be evacuated. So DRS, dynamic resource scheduling, is a feature that constantly monitors the host and if it sees a particular host taking up a lot of resources, it will take that host off and throw it on a different host in the cluster that's not running as hot and doesn't have as much utilization. It protects the overall cluster 

As above, I think the DRS would be a helpful additional feature.

I've been using this solution for six months. 

As long as you're monitoring your host yourself, it's a stable solution. 

I can't really speak to the scalability. I haven't looked into it yet. We're a very small company and we have about five people using the solution, all at the director or senior level. We have a senior application developer, and a director level manager who brought the product in.

Does a three and a half minute setup sound reasonable to you? When I first installed it, I thought there must be more to it. I downloaded the ISO onto a thumb drive and made it bootable. Then you boot the server, boot off the thumb drive. You have to answer about six questions and that's it. Very simple. 

My only recommendation to anyone thinking of implementing this solution is to read up on it, but give it some serious consideration because it really is a great product. In other words, don't let the freeware label scare you off.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

I am using it to virtualize microservices.

I have also begun to integrate Proxmox into my DevOps pipeline through scripting.

I have a sensible virtualization technology to spin up VMs on demand.

I'm using several servers now.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The stability is good.

You can scale the solution.

The documentation is great.

If you have problems, you can find answers on their website.

I can't speak to any improvements. It is not lacking features. I have been keeping up with new versions and am thankful for all of the improvements made through the years.

I've been using the solution for four years now.

The stability is very good. It's reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

I haven't had any problems with scalability. I'm using it on several servers with large memory and hard disks and it's doing just fine.

M2 disks are completely supported if the bare metal server does.

Setting up the firewall is so easy that it can be managed with scripting.

Proxmox has become a centre of our IT-infrastructure.

I've only used their website when I've had questions. I've never spoken to anyone directly. Therefore, I can't speak to personal experience with technical support.

Positive

We previously used VMware. I switched due to the fact that I wanted to try something different.

The initial setup is not overly complex. It's very straightforward and very simple. 

I had a server that I needed to expose to the internet and I just decided to use it instead of VMware and it worked.

You only really need one person to handle maintenance, however, we have two people on staff that can handle those types of responsibilities. 

I handled the initial setup on my own. I did not need to use an implementation specialist or consultant. 

I've seen a very good ROI.

Collaboration and the networking of more than one server is becoming more important to me now. Preparing to switch to their licensing plan.

I just went directly to this product. I'm aware of other possibilities, KVM and others, however, I decided on Proxmox as it had a good following and good documentation.

Version 7 is almost completely in use now. Two servers are going to be upgraded to 7.

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.

It's used for server virtualization on a client-facing network.

Its compatibility is most valuable. For any VM or specification, if I have the license, there could be one cluster for it.

The management can be better. It's not like VMware where you can get all clusters on a single dashboard. In VMware, you can literally see all the VMs running in one cluster regardless of the host.

I've been using this solution for just a year.

I'd rate it a six out of ten in terms of stability. Because we don't have a professional engineer for Proxmox VE, we are very reliant on our suppliers. So far, we haven't experienced any bugs, but as an IT specialist, I haven't had any formal training for Proxmox VE. It's an open-source virtualization platform.

It's scalable, but it lacks automation. You have to configure the memory for the system to be automated. I'd rate it a six out of ten in terms of scalability.

It's for our external servers, and we probably have more than five thousand users.

We are very reliant on our supplier for support. I haven't got any chance to get in touch with Proxmox support.

I've used other solutions. Proxmox VE is much harder to use than ESXi and AHV.

It's easy, but the management is not really that efficient for us, so I'd rate it a seven out of ten.

It usually takes two days to conclude. There is also migration. Migrating less than twenty VM to a newly configured Proxmox would approximately take two to three working days.

It's very cheap.

I'd recommend it for a small business or a startup business. It's very helpful for those who are starting up and have fewer users. For DR scenarios or use cases, it would be worth it.

Overall, I'd rate it a seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution in order to have an infrastructure set up on-prem. It enables flexibility in projects to set up virtual servers. Instead of having to go out and buy expensive solutions from VMware, for example, Proxmox fills the gap between flexibility and stability. 

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. 

The backup solution is a little bit slow and sometimes sluggish on the restore side. It takes a little bit of time, but that could also be the fault of the hardware.

We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult.

The installation could definitely be easier. For the vendor, if the solution offered better information, they would have more users on it.

The solution should implement something that enables me to at least get an overview of the loads and the statuses of the machines and applications from my cell phone. An app for mobile management would be great.

It's been very stable. It's been working tremendously for our projects in order to set up things temporarily. Right now, it's not in production; we're only using it for testing. It offers superb stability, however.

We haven't tried to scale the solution. We tried it with two loads, which isn't really enough for a scalability test. We only have about 20 people on the solution currently.

We haven't really used technical support. We've only been using the community version.

We previously used VMware. We switched mostly due to the cost, but also the scalability, and usability of Proxmox.

The initial setup, after you've done it once, is straightforward, but the first time it isn't. That's because of the way you build the image. When you install on x86 infrastructure, mounting the installation is not straightforward. Unless you have medium to good NAVIS experience, it's actually difficult to install. 

We handled the implementation ourselves. The documentation available is really good, which is why we were able to handle it internally.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

Apart from a few small issues, everything works well in comparison to VMware. I would select Proxmox any day. The solution itself is really good.

The solution should definitely keep supporting the community, and always have a community edition because people who are interested in it will want to learn it. Once users get into production mode, they will definitely end up buying the support version. They should make the implementation easier, however, because then the solution would get more people on board.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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

KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution.

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.

I have been using the solution for a year.

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

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.

We have trouble getting help from the support team.

Negative

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.

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

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.

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.

We use the open-source version of Proxmox for automation and other uses, including LXC containers. We use it for my enterprise applications and to offer our hosted cloud-services.

Proxmox with Ceph Storage as HCI has given really peace of mind to Management & IT for regular hardware maintenance, with near to zero downtime or no downtime for most of VM & LXC container keeping in mind service running round-the-clock for customer.

The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage ZFS & Ceph, container based on LXC and everything else works out of the box. Additionally, it is a really stable, reliable, and scalable solution.

They have a good road map already in place, so I don't think there are any immediate challenges.

I don't have any real challenges about improvement here. (As most IT required features are included and they do have roadmap). Plus API & Command tool is lot helpful.

I personally keep exploring other players and backup/Restore/DR software.

And believe more advance features of backup/restore & DR Data Sync for Ceph  on GUI fronted would be added benefits for users coming from other platform.

On Security/Firewall/Software-Defined-Switch with more advance feature on webGUI would be also more helpful too.

I have been using Proxmox VE for more than six years.

Proxmox VE is an enterprise solution, it is used daily. Its regular maintenance is normal, the way you would maintain any normal infrastructure. There is nothing special or complex with it. We have a team of five people who maintain it, but there aren't any complex challenges.

My company is very small but I have more than 10,000 users accessing on ProxmoxVE Cluster. We provide the solution to other customers.

The thing about this solution is that is so stable I hardly need any technical support.

We used Raw Linux Virt-manger for per Server management for VM & LXC before, without any central management.

Everything has a learning curve, steps to watch, understand and explore. But with Proxmox there are hardly any challenges. I don't think the deployment took more than an hour.

Its was inhouse.

License & Support-subscription & running maintenance cost is bear minimum compare to other closed source solutions. We were able to use our other existing commodity server part of this cluster.

Recently, I have been a Proxmox reseller. I wanted to promote it in India because there is no reseller here. We are trying to promote Proxmox here because being open source it's not popular worldwide, although we have been using it in production for the last more than five or six years. We have been exploring Proxmox for small applications for more than seven, eight years.

Tried Xen, but was not comfortable.

With Proxmox VE you get everything in one box, including the ZFS & Ceph storage & LXC container technology. 

Even the support subscription is really good.

It's a wonderful open-source solution. It's out-of-the-box and it is easy to learn compared to other vendors. It is easy to deploy and maintain and you hardly have any trouble or challenges from the software. 

It provides peace of mind for management.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Proxmox VE a nine.

We are a service provider and we use Proxmox VE. We use the virtualizer mainly.

The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use.

The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve.

I have been using Proxmox VE for approximately one month.

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

I do not have any users yet but I have 10 potential users.

I rate the scalability of Proxmox VE an eight out of ten.

I rate the support from Proxmox VE a nine out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup of Proxmox VE is complex. The full deployment took many weeks and I am still configuring it.

I rate the initial setup of Proxmox VE a seven out of ten.

We used two people for the deployment of the solution.

The price of the solution is priced low.

There is a one-time purchase to use this solution.

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

I rate Proxmox VE an eight out of ten.

We use it wherever we need virtualization.

It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does.

Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support.

We've been using this solution for probably two years now.

We are satisfied with the stability of the solution.

It leads itself well for scaling out. It is being used on almost all of our servers here. We have 46 users, and everyone who works here uses this solution.

I didn't contact them.

Before Proxmox, we used Zend Server.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. The initial deployment probably took two hours.

We implemented it through an in-house team. We have two staff members for its deployment and maintenance. Their roles are IT Manager and Assistant IT Manager.

I'm sure there was or is an ROI, but I don't really get to see that end of the operation.

I am not aware of the licensing cost, but there is a cost for support.

We tried VMware and decided to go with Proxmox VE. The cost was the key factor.

I would highly recommend this solution. I would rate Proxmox VE a nine out of ten.