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 organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
"There should be a helm feature for managing Kubernetes ports directly from the Proxmox traffic interface."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"I can't speak to any improvements. It is not lacking features."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."
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, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM 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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