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 template option allows us to build a desktop in a VM, then quickly deploy as a linked clone."
"It's been a stable solution."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"It's very user-friendly."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult."
"The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
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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