We performed a comparison between VMware vSphere 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: VMware vSphere is highly regarded for its extensive range of features, user-friendly interface, and scalability. However, users want improved backup features, integration capabilities, and documentation. Proxmox VE is valued for its simplicity, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Users recommend automating certain processes, enhancing the user interface and documentation, and addressing compatibility.
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"It allows us to create an individual VM along with the GPU for machine learning."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is stable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"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."
"I would like to see more monitoring in the next release of this solution."
"It is a good solution, but it is very complicated in some ways. It is not easy. You must have experience in the console mode to do some configurations. A lot of documentation and YouTube videos are available that you can use to learn about it."
"The solution needs a better billing system."
"Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"The virtualization can be better."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Proxmox VE is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere 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 vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Proxmox VE is most compared with Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Proxmox VE vs. VMware vSphere report.
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