Proxmox VE Reviews

With Proxmox, we use the hypervisor of Proxmox and Proxmox backups. In VMware, I see all the production, like vSphere, vCenter, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, Workspace ONE, and VMware Horizon. Right now we are working with NSX. 

For VMware, as a partner, I have many cases of vSAN as a hyperconvergence solution. This solution is very popular in my country, mostly with banks. There are many solutions that we have implemented and that are very successful. Horizon is another solution that is highly requested by clients. Because of the pandemic, the VDI and Remote Desktop are often requested from our clients. Those two are very good solutions. From my experience, I don't have many problems with them.

Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center.

One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line. I don't know about the last version of Proxmox, but I had that problem with this version.

I've been using this solution for one year. In my last job I was a final client, so I worked with vSphere and the vCenter. I did a migration from vSphere to Proxmox, and I was in charge of this infrastructure using Proxmox. I am working for a partner of the VMware product as a presale VMware specialist.

Most implementations are on-premise. We really don't have implementation on cloud. I'm from Bolivia, and we recently have been introducing on-cloud solutions, but most of the solutions are on-premises.

Proxmox is very stable.

For deployment, we used eight blade servers.

Proxmox is is free.

I've worked with VMware, vSphere, vCenter, and vRealize Operations Manager. VSphere works perfectly. The enterprise version is very complete, and you get almost everything you need in data center.

I would rate Proxmox VE 7 out of 10.

We use this solution for our file servers. Most of the applications are file servers and some are employed as web servers for internal applications that we use.

Most of what we use is for file servers and for some internal web server applications for local use. 

It is easy to deploy.

We are using servers individually, and we are looking for a reliable application that allows us to hop between servers with high availability. It is one of our primary goals to have a hyper-converged solution. With the high availability, we can make some hop-switch deployment teams between our servers.

It could be more user-friendly with the configuration.

We have been using Proxmox VE for almost one year.

We are using Version 6.3.

We have no issues with the stability of Proxmox Ve.

Proxmox VE is a scalable solution, but we are not necessarily interested in expanding our usage. We want to make some changes to something that is more reliable.

We have no support from Proxmox VE. Our support is from the internet. It would be helpful to have some support included.

The initial setup is easy and straightforward. We set it up locally.

Our team does the configurations.

It takes a couple of days to deploy.

We are looking for another Hypervisor similar to VMware.

Proxmox VE is a great solution for small enterprises for small businesses. I'll recommend it just for that use.

I would rate Proxmox VE an eight out of ten.

We currently have more than 160 virtual machines and LXC containers on Proxmox in an all Linux production environment.  

Get the community level if you are on a budget --- keep your software updated to the latest releases.

Live migration. It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers.

IMPORTANT - use separate physical network for Corosync/Heartbeat functions. This is obscure in the documentation - but you'll find it.

Heartbeat was overwhelmed due to all hypervisors running a single NIC - nodes started to fence themselves when load was high.

Use best practices for network segregation - management / heartbeat / live migration / Ethernet-based storage should be on different networks (VLANs).

N/A.

Very straightforward.

In-House.

The cost is excellent. An excellent choice for budget sensitive operations.

My primary use case for this solution is virtualization.

We have an on-premises deployment.

The most valuable feature of this solution is performance. It is fast.

I would like to see more monitoring in the next release of this solution. Currently, it's simple structured monitoring.

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. It recognizes memory, so if you add a new hard disk then it is ok.

We have two people who use this solution.

I have never contacted technical support for this solution. I've found everything that I needed to know on the internet.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward, and it is relatively easy to set up.

I performed the implementation myself.

We do not require any staff for deployment and maintenance. It works right out of the box.

This is a solution that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

Our primary use case is testing any software by Proxmox.

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.

The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files.

The stability of the solution is very good.

The solution is scalable.

I've never been in touch with technical support so I can't speak to any direct experience with them. Their website, however, is very helpful.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We use the standard community edition of the solution. We use the on-premises deployment model.

The planning of the volumes is very important because if you're converting from one format to another, you can have some challenges there. I would advise others to plan the setup very, very well so that you do not have to migrate systems into different formats. That's the only challenge that we had.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I am using this solution for the virtualization of many servers. I have its latest version.

The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable.

It is a good solution, but it is very complicated in some ways. It is not easy. You must have experience in the console mode to do some configurations. A lot of documentation and YouTube videos are available that you can use to learn about it.

I have been using this solution for one year.

It is stable.

I have not scaled it. What I have covers all my needs. In two or three years, I will see if I need to scale it.

I have local technical support, and it is excellent.

It is complicated to set up. It took us one week.

For implementing this solution, you must have technical support. 

I would rate Proxmox VE a 10 out of 10. It is an excellent and complete solution. I really like it.

We use the solution for managing infrastructure like VMs.

It's really helped my day-to-day activities. I started my career ten years ago, and it's made my work very simple. 

It's very user-friendly. 

The solution is relatively easy to use.

Migrations and backups are easy.

It offers good high availability.

This is an open-source product that is free to use. 

The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there.

We'd like to see more resource and user management.

If they had virtualization technology, it would be even more useful. That said, it's pretty good right now, as an open-source solution. As long as they provide what they have right now properly, we are happy.

I've been using the solution for six or seven years. I've used the solution for a while at this point. 

The solution is open-source. 

We're end-users. We use it in our offices. 

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

It's a solid, stable and powerful open source virtualisation product that has allowed us to bring virtualisation to smaller SMBs at an affordable price.

All our client servers are now virtualised, which has reduced the risk of downtime due to a server failure that used to happen with non-virtualised servers. Servers can be backed up using snapshots etc.

Storage IO management seems the weakest link although this could be hardware related. On decent servers this is not an issue but on smaller custom built servers we have occasionally had issues with IO speed. It is a well thought out product and the newer versions just seem to get better n better.

We've been using it for seven years.

There have been no issues deploying it.

There have been no issues with its stability.

We haven't had any issues scaling it for our needs.

I've never really needed it as I've been able to work out most things intuitively.

We also looked at VMware. Our perception is that this is a superior product but that is subjective as it is not mainstream.

It's straightforward. We have developed a tried and tested method to set up servers and it works well once you know how you want your servers to work.

It's hard to quantity but using Proxmox has significantly boosted our server capabilities and service offering increasing our revenue.

It's open source and provided one has enough experience with Linux and servers it doesn’t cost much other than time to become an expert in the product.

We also looked at VMware.

It's well worth using. It's highly recommended and we have had no issues.