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.
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"It's been a stable solution."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"It is a community-based solution."
"The setup is very easy."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"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, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"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 needs to improve its stability."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
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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