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.
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"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."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"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."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"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."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"Proxmox needs to improve the integration of its network, machines, and virtual machines."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"The management can be better. It's not like VMware where you can get all clusters on a single dashboard. In VMware, you can literally see all the VMs running in one cluster regardless of the host."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"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."
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.