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.
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"The setup is very easy."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"The solution is stable."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The interface has to be updated."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"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."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"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."
"Some of the more advanced features and options required for setup still need to use the console and hand edit config files."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance."
"It's one of those things for me to move things on to the cloud. It's not so easy. I am always on the laptop and have to monitor that because if you want to make strides; you need to stay online."
"Its user interface can be improved. In the version that I am using, not all functions can be performed by using the UI. There can be some improvement on that. I'm assuming that it has already been improved in the latest version."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 24 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "An easy-to-use solution with virtualization features that helped during lockdown". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "An open-source server management platform with a useful Software RAID feature, but backup and recovery could be better". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM 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.