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.
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The whole solution is good. It has good tools that help me in managing the servers. It is also stable."
"Proxmox is free, very stable, and doesn't require more resources for memory RAM. It's fine for a small data center."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"The tool has very good performance."
"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."
"It fits in well with our organization. It works and does what it says it does."
"The affordability of the solution is the product's most valuable aspect."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"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."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"This solution needs a more flexible and efficient backup solution in the dashboard."
"The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."
"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."
"Separate physical network for Corosync/Heartbeat should be emphasized in the Quick Start or Getting Started documentation."
"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."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 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 "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". 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, Hyper-V 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.