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.
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"The tool has very good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"It has a good performance and you can cluster it."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"The scalability could be better."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 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 "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". 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, Hyper-V 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.