We performed a comparison between Proxmox VE and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The solution is open source and free to use."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"I have a program on my old machine with 380 events, but I need to create new events. This is much easier to do with VFXTHs, and I have the skills to do it. I also have two VPNs running on the old machine, which I can use to get started."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the 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."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"The technical support is good."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"I appreciate the ease of backup and snapshot creation. The ability to revert to previous versions without losing data is very useful for our team."
"It's stable."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"The process for deployment is complicated."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"It could have more security updates such as when a new threat is coming into market."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"The product is outdated."
Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Proxmox VE is rated 8.6, while VMware Workstation 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Oracle VM, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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