We performed a comparison between VMware vSphere and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware vSphere is highly regarded for its extensive range of features, user-friendly interface, and scalability. However, users want improved backup features, integration capabilities, and documentation. Proxmox VE is valued for its simplicity, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Users recommend automating certain processes, enhancing the user interface and documentation, and addressing compatibility.
"The solution has good high availability."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"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."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"Separate physical network for Corosync/Heartbeat should be emphasized in the Quick Start or Getting Started documentation."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Proxmox VE is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Proxmox VE is most compared with Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Proxmox VE vs. VMware vSphere report.
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