We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Proxmox VE, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."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 solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"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."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"It is a community-based solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"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."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"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."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"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."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"It could have more security updates such as when a new threat is coming into market."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The solution needs to move to the cloud. It would be nice if they made it more robust there."
"The virtualizer in Proxmox VE could improve."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."