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.
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"It is a community-based solution."
"The solution's compatibility is very good with multiple operating systems. The moving systems are very good and migration is excellent. These are the most valuable features for us."
"We can access the product from iPhone 7. It is stable and easy."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the speed. Additionally, I can modify the solution if needed because it is open-source and the integration of any kind of API and monitoring is hassle-free."
"The interface has to be updated."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"The virtualization can be better."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"The scalability could be better."
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, 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.