We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor 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: Proxmox VE is promising but still lacks some enterprise features. Citrix Hypervisor is a more mature and robust solution and therefore is the clear winner in this comparison.
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The backup service, which was released recently, and that we are already using, is wonderful."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"The virtualization is good."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"We now have the ability to quickly build and deploy VM desktops for application testing with the snapshot ability to rollback, as required."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"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."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"I can't speak to any improvements. It is not lacking features."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, 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 VMware Workstation. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Proxmox VE report.
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You should go with Proxmox for many reasons, including not needing a specific Windows Application to manage it, where with Proxmox you can manage all with a browser. Also, Proxmox has a native integrated Ceph Storage control.