We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Proxmox VE based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Hyper-V and Proxmox VE seem to have a more or less rating among users regarding ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support. In terms of features, users of Hyper-V weren’t satisfied with the recovery capabilities and the instability if the stack became bloated. On the other hand, users of Proxmox VE didn’t like the need to update manually but felt that the solution was young. Therefore, the bugs they experienced will hopefully have a solution with a future update.
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The installation was straightforward."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution is stable."
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"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."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"We are happy with Proxmox VE. We use it as part of a cluster."
"That the product is free and still has all the features you expect is a huge benefit."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"If this solution could import directly from OVS format then it would make migration much easier."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"Separate physical network for Corosync/Heartbeat should be emphasized in the Quick Start or Getting Started documentation."
"I would like to see more monitoring in the next release of this solution."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"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."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Citrix Hypervisor. See our Hyper-V vs. Proxmox VE report.
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