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.
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"Ease of use, HA, internal 100gbps Virtio network, built-in backup (don't pay $1200 Veeam licence), support for multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM, no need to RDP in the VMs to do your stuff (Win, Linux and Mac with SPICE and using 6 screens here (11520*2160)."
"The solution is stable."
"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 tool has very good performance."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"Currently, there are several features inaccessible through the API, necessitating the use of either the WebUI or the command line interface."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"Separate physical network for Corosync/Heartbeat should be emphasized in the Quick Start or Getting Started documentation."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"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."
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 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 "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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.