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.
"Proxmox allows us to achieve affordable performance while keeping high levels of data protection and flexibility."
"The solution has good high availability."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"The virtualization is good."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"The solution has high availability."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"Proxmox VE needs improvement in cloud computing."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"It is difficult to remove a virtual machine."
"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 support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"It's an expensive solution."
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, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Proxmox VE vs. VMware vSphere report.
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