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's a stable product."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The tool has very good performance."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"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."
"It's been a stable solution."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"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."
"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 solution needs to improve its stability."
"It's one of those things for me to move things on to the cloud. It's not so easy. I am always on the laptop and have to monitor that because if you want to make strides; you need to stay online."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
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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