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Proxmox VE

Score8.9 out of 10

72 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Proxmox VE?

Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC. Users can manage virtual machines, containers, highly available clusters, storage and networks via a web interface or CLI. Proxmox VE code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. The project is developed and maintained by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Proxmox VE has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Live virtual machine backup

    Ability to backup vms without interrupting service

    Category average: 7.7

  • Hypervisor-level security

    Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware

    Category average: 8.2

  • Virtual machine automated provisioning

    Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Management console

    Management console for central administration of vm environment

    Category average: 7.9

  • Live virtual machine migration

    Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Proxmox VE.
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Proxmox allows for easy deployment, management, and peace of mind when virtualizing

Incentivized
Joseph BrowerView profile
Owner and Lead Engineer in Information Technology at Binary Engine (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed to have a flexible virtualization environment that granted us control over how the virtual machine was presented as well as compatibility with other platforms. This was for our own organization, as well as for our clients, some being financial institutions, schools, and large investments companies. Proxmox has granted us this flexibility while at the same time ensuring we don't have vendor lockin.

Pros

  • Virtualization
  • Backups
  • Integration with storage solutions
  • Clustering

Cons

  • Can't manage ZFS replication or snapshots as easily as I'd like
  • Encrypted disks aren't easily deployed in VMs
  • Moving disks between VMs is not automated

Return on Investment

  • Due to the open source nature of Proxmox, we have no licensing costs while training our employees
  • We've migrated 100% of our clients to Proxmox and have found improved uptime, and flexibility.
  • In the 10 years of using Proxmox, we've yet to lose any data or not be notified of backup issues.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi and Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)

Other Software Used

pfSense, Cisco Meraki MX, Laravel PHP Framework

Proxmox is a powerful virtualization platform

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Proxmox to virtualize machines that we use for development and for services offered for our clients. We cut costs and reduce deployment time by using virtual machines for ecommerce development.

Pros

  • Easy to create and manage virtual machines
  • Good network configuration flexbility
  • Can be customized

Cons

  • Some errors are hard do debug
  • Lack of GUI for certain configurations
  • Backup and restore are not as intuitive as they could be

Return on Investment

  • Reduced costs with cloud services
  • Reduced costs with real machines
  • Reduced devops work load

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSphere

Other Software Used

DataGrip, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Google Drive, Cloudflare

Proxmox VE: The Open-Source Virtualization Platform for Efficient and Cost-Effective Server Managemen

Armando InsfranView profile
Network Development Manager in Professional Services at Webservice Solutions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Proxmox for a long time. I migrated from other payment solutions since none satisfied and justified the relationship between price and productivity. My needs were a good administration of the server resources and to guarantee the continuous operation of my services. The good backup system and the functionality of updated templates as containers are interesting extras. 100% web environment.

Pros

  • BackUp System, provides extensive propiertes and verifications. An exclusive server for BackUp Administration (PBS)
  • Hardware Customization. You can select several properties to adapt the hardware to your needs
  • Easy administration. You will be able to manage the server with easily accessible tools such as the web console and usage statistics.
  • Certificates Administration.

Cons

  • Import a VM from the web console. You have to do some research to import a vm from another Hypervisor.
  • On several occasions you will have to carry out research to solve the problems.

Return on Investment

  • Integrity and Agility in services.
  • Greater control of server resources
  • Greater accessibility for server administration

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi, Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM VirtualBox

The power of cloud everywhere

Incentivized
Mauro GiannandreaView profile
DevOps Specialist in Information Technology at BEE by Growens (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Proxmox VE is the best solution to use bare-metal company resources in a cloud way. Proxmox VE let users to have a sort of cloud in house, with API a nice web interface and many automation possibility. Is the must to have solution if you need to run the same software with Proxmox VE locally and on a remote solution (cloud providers, baremetal, vps etc).

Pros

  • Live Migration of VM on different nodes.
  • HA architecture without SPOF, multi master and Watchdog based Fencing.
  • Programmable Backup and restore.
  • Terraform provider plugin for Proxmox VE.

Cons

  • Lack in ARM architectures support.
  • Better integration with cloud providers, for example Oracle Serverless.

Return on Investment

  • Save money for licenses.
  • Avoid vendor lock-in (high cost migrating the solutions).
  • Possibility to use low cost or high quality server based on business needs.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi, Hyper-V and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Other Software Used

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS Certificate Manager

Free, but same function

Incentivized
Yanwen Sun
manager in Research & Development at Offload House (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Proxmox in the test center, it provides an easy and beautiful web console, by using the free management script and the web console, we got an easy-to-use virtual machine management platform. And Proxmox is an open-source software, we had added our sso and hardware management features to it.

Pros

  • vm management
  • web interface
  • open source

Cons

  • cluster management
  • working with ceph

Return on Investment

  • It worked near the paid solution but free

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi