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 initial setup is straightforward."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"It is a community-based solution."
"The solution is easy to install. It can run on a lot of different types of hardware. Creating virtual machines with it is really easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The solution is open source and free to use."
"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."
"We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure. Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"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 solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
"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."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
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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