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Proxmox VE

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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…

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Proxmox VE has been widely adopted by companies across various industries, including travel/entertainment, housing/realtors, and retail. …
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Popular Features

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  • Live virtual machine backup (10)
    9.5
    95%
  • Management console (10)
    9.4
    94%
  • Virtual machine automated provisioning (10)
    9.3
    93%
  • Live virtual machine migration (10)
    9.0
    90%

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Pricing

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€ 90

On Premise
year & CPU socket

Basic

€ 280

On Premise
year & CPU socket

Standard

€ 420

On Premise
year & CPU socket

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $7.50 per month
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Product Demos

Infrastruktur Cloud Computing dengan PROXMOX VE 6.4-1 (Demo Virtual Box)

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Demo Booting DiskLess CyberIndo Server Windows-7 VM di ProxMox VE

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Proxmox Demo

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Home PC Virtualized with Proxmox VE

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Proxmox VE demo 14 VMs and 3 LXC containers running

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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

9.1
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Proxmox VE?

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Proxmox VE Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsNA
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Proxmox VE starts at $7.5.

Reviewers rate Live virtual machine backup highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Proxmox VE are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Proxmox VE has been widely adopted by companies across various industries, including travel/entertainment, housing/realtors, and retail. Users have praised Proxmox VE for its versatility and power, making it an ideal choice for setting up and deploying custom environments. This software offers a range of features such as high availability, snapshot backup capability, and scalability, making it well-suited for QA, development, and production environments. One of the key advantages of Proxmox VE is its support for different storage options like iSCSI and Ceph, allowing users to mix and match as needed for different instances. This flexibility makes it an attractive option for financial institutions, schools, and large investment companies that require compatibility with other platforms without the fear of vendor lock-in.

Users who have migrated to Proxmox VE from other solutions have highlighted the benefits of good server resource administration, continuous operation of services, and access to updated templates as containers. Additionally, Proxmox VE has been successfully integrated with SCALE HC3 in both production and test centers, enabling effortless staging and transfer of virtual machines between environments. Its free setup, clustering capabilities, and compatibility with existing hardware make it particularly useful for building test servers in lab environments.

The use cases for Proxmox VE extend beyond specific industries or sectors. It is widely deployed in office servers for tasks such as ZFS data storage, hosting web applications, network administration, and automating software builds. With its simplified management of storage, virtualization, deployment, and networking functions, Proxmox VE helps users save time and resources while ensuring easy system maintenance. As an open-source Virtual Environment Manager that receives regular updates and maintenance support, Proxmox VE provides a cost-effective solution that caters to diverse user needs.

For software developers looking to expedite their workflows, Proxmox VE has proven to be a valuable tool. Its fast provisioning of VMs using containers and the ability to scale resources without disrupting virtual machines have resulted in significant time savings for development tasks. Whether it's creating custom environments, ensuring high availability, or simplifying system management, Proxmox VE offers a reliable and versatile solution that has been embraced by users across various industries.

Versatile Hypervisor Management Solution: Many users have praised Proxmox VE for its versatility as a hypervisor management solution. They appreciate that it allows them to utilize multiple types of storage for each instance, providing flexibility and adaptability to their virtualization needs.

Exceptional Stability and Reliability: Several reviewers have consistently highlighted the exceptional stability and reliability of Proxmox VE. They mention that it surpasses their expectations compared to other hypervisor management solutions they have used in the past, giving them confidence in its performance and dependability.

Fast and Capable Virtual Machines: The speed of Proxmox VE has received high praise from many users. By leveraging Linux KVM and OpenVZ technologies, Proxmox VE enables the creation of fast and capable virtual machines. This enhances overall system performance, allowing users to efficiently run their applications without any noticeable slowdowns or bottlenecks.

Cons:

  1. Lack of support for ARM architectures and cloud providers: Users have expressed their disappointment with OpenVZ's lack of support for ARM architectures and its limited integration with popular cloud providers like Oracle Serverless.
  2. Difficulty in managing ZFS replication and snapshots: Many reviewers find it challenging to effectively manage ZFS replication or snapshots, as well as deploy encrypted disks within VMs, leading to increased complexity and potential issues.
  3. Limited cluster management options: There is a clear demand for improved cluster management capabilities in OpenVZ, especially regarding ceph integration and the availability of more robust storage options such as GlusterFS or Lustre. These features would greatly enhance the overall scalability and flexibility of the platform.

Users have made several recommendations for using Proxmox VE based on their experiences. The most common recommendations include working out the architecture before using it in production, utilizing distributed storage for live migrations between nodes, and using SSDs with cache for better VM disk performance.

Reviewers suggest planning and designing the infrastructure carefully before implementing Proxmox VE in a production environment. This includes considering factors such as hardware requirements, scalability, and limitations.

Users recommend utilizing distributed storage options such as Ceph or ZFS over NFS for improved live migrations between nodes. This helps ensure smooth and efficient VM transfers during live migrations.

Many reviewers advise incorporating SSDs with cache to enhance disk performance when running virtual machines. This can lead to improved overall system responsiveness and faster data access for VMs.

Overall, users highly recommend conducting thorough research and planning the architecture before deploying Proxmox VE in a production setting. They also emphasize the benefits of using distributed storage solutions and leveraging SSDs with cache for optimal performance.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Joseph Brower | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Virtualization
  • Backups
  • Integration with storage solutions
  • Clustering
  • 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
We've been able to deploy Proxmox and easily migrate machines to and from the environment. This has proven invaluable as each of our clients is unique. One great example was when a client had some mishaps with VMWare. The environment became difficult to use due to some licensing issues and we were easily able to export the VMDKs and import them into Proxmox.

Another interesting situation that Proxmox really shines is with integration with snapshot based filesystems (like ZFS). We have ZFS shares with snapshots exported to Proxmox via NFS. When we need to recover an individual file from the VM, rather than needing to copy the entire snapshot back, we can log into Proxmox via SSH and use the CLI to mount the disk from the snapshot. Then we can copy just the data we need out. Because this happens outside of the virtual machine and on a completely separate network, it is protected against ransomware and malicious users. It also is super convenient.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The product is an open source Virtual Environment Manager that simplifies the task of monitoring and working with multiple virtual machines and containers, it is continually updated and maintained, and has very few problems and bugs.
It is a tool that it is free to use and that one can purchase technical support with several variants, with prices according to the numbre of events supported.
  • It facilitates the management of a cluster of servers.
  • It has a GUI that simplifies the configuration of services within the cluster.
  • It supports many superb technologies such as CEPH, ZFS, live migration, snapshots, etc.
  • It is based on a Linux standard and stable distribution such as Debian.
  • It adopts many standards.
  • It is a robust environment for virtual machines and containers.
  • Could provide more GUI assistance for certain tasks.
  • Could adopt other standards of distributed file systems such as GlusterFS or Lustre.
  • Could implement continuous migration or snapshots, added to timed snapshots and live and cold migration.
We used Proxmox to implement private cloud services, for clusters of a small number of servers, from 3 to 11 with and without high availability. Allways with ZFS file systems, and we used to install the root pool in SSDs mirrored and use other pools with RAID 10 in groups of four, for the virtual machines and containers, for the backups and snapshots, we used magnetic disks with RAID 10, in groups of four. Do not use an even number of servers because does not facilitates the implementation of High Availability, because the corosync service must have an odd number of servers to detect a failed server for the quorum system. We used a variety of servers, from clone PCs with AMD Ryzen with 6 cores and 12 threads with 64 GB of RAM no ECC, to high end servers with 64 cores and 128 threads per cpu and 2 cpus per server, with AMD EPYC Rome or Milan, 2 terabytes of RAM ECC.
Armando Insfran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Proxmox VE is a virtualization platform that provides a range of features and functionalities suitable for various scenarios. Here are some specific scenarios where Proxmox VE is well suited and some scenarios where it might not be the best choice:Well-suited scenarios:Virtualization of server workloads: Proxmox VE is well suited for virtualizing server workloads such as web servers, mail servers, database servers, and other similar applications. Its high-performance virtualization capabilities allow these workloads to run smoothly and efficiently.Hosting multiple virtual machines (VMs): Proxmox VE is ideal for hosting multiple VMs on a single server. It provides efficient resource management, allowing users to easily allocate resources to each VM.Clustered environments: Proxmox VE is a great choice for clustered environments. It supports clustering and can easily manage multiple servers, providing high availability and load balancing for mission-critical applications.
Less appropriate scenarios:
Limited hardware resources: Proxmox VE requires significant hardware resources to run efficiently. If you have limited hardware resources, it might not be the best choice.
Simple applications: If you only need to run a single, simple application, Proxmox VE might be overkill. Other virtualization platforms or even a basic web hosting service might be more appropriate.
Mauro Giannandrea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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).
  • 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.
  • Lack in ARM architectures support.
  • Better integration with cloud providers, for example Oracle Serverless.
Proxmox VE is a good alternative to the most famous cloud providers. It's the top solution when you want to run applications on your own cloud in your house or on remote servers. If the company has a remote and in-house server with Proxmox VE is possible to use the same code and the same VM on both sites, this is not possible with the standard cloud providers. Proxmox VE is the lead application also when you need total control of the hardware, base system, and all the stuff that are hidden on standard cloud providers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • vm management
  • web interface
  • open source
  • cluster management
  • working with ceph
For testing lab and home, PVE does not require a license, with the easy use web interface, easy use firewall, it can run without manager. With the KVM virtual engine, the performance will not degrade than bare. Totally, it is suitable for low cost, easy management environment.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Proxmox is being used in our software development, actually we have VMware but VMware is fully hypervisor that need to install full OS before can build one server, but Proxmox has the container that very good and fast provision the VM quickly, also elastic can scale the resource without turn off the VM. We save a lot of time by using Proxmox for the container.
  • Proxmox container is very powerful and super fast, provision one VM around less than 1minutes, very good for development, DevOps
  • The cluster of Proxmox is powerful, its enterprise class already this features, and using less resource, CPU, RAM of dedicated server
  • Storage cluster the most powerful I love, its support many simple storage type, icci, cifs, samba, NFS, easy to integrated with another SAN
  • Backup Schedule also powerful that I can schedule backup VM every night, hour, it work perfectly.
  • actually, when the cluster is breaking, it's very difficult to rejoin it back
  • the command line maybe i am not using the paid option, i use the normal version without subscription, less information that i can find.
I recommend Proxmox virtualization for the development environment for opensource, especially for DevOps company, it's free or paid depending on your budget, but features full functionality and saves time for the developer to create the container, VM for testing the software.
Joe Foran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SCALE HC3 in production, and Proxmox VE in the lab - both are Linux KVM virtualization tools and so we can more easily stage and transfer VMS from our lab environment to the production environment without having to re-create virtual disks and instead just moving QCOW2 virtual disks from place to place.
  • Feature-rich virtualization.
  • Open-standards compliance.
  • Redundancy and failover capability.
  • VDI brokering - it doesn't do this natively.
  • Hyperconvergence is still nascent and requires a lot of work.
For the SMB, it's a great tool for production - you can rack and stack two or more nodes and be up and running with a one-node failure tolerance in not time at all. To the medium and large enterprise it is the ultimate lab tool that mixes open standards with great features.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Proxmox VE on our office servers to host virtual machines we use for our business and network operations. It's used across the whole business for a variety of tasks, including:
  • ZFS data storage.
  • Hosting web applications for internal use.
  • Hosting client websites during development.
  • Network administration (DNS, mail relay, log server, etc.).
  • Automation of software builds.
The main problem Proxmox VE solves for us, is the overall management of the storage, virtualisation, deployment, and networking of our systems. Prior to using Proxmox VE, we had to bring various technologies together and try to coerce it to all play nice. Switching to Proxmox simplified all of this, made it much easier to maintain, and freed up resources to use elsewhere.
  • ZFS storage out of the box. The integration with ZFS is fantastic. You can easily create pools to store your VM images and data on, and the Proxmox web UI provides an easy way to check drive health, ZFS scrub status, etc.
  • Great web UI. Practically everything configurable is available to do so from the web user interface. You'll rarely need to drop to the command line for administrative tasks, unless you want to, in which case you can do that too. The UI also provides graphs and visualisations to help you keep check of how everything is performing.
  • Easy to setup a high availability cluster. Although Proxmox VE works perfectly well on a single server, you can also install it on multiple hosts and setup a cluster.
  • Uses a Debian core system with an Ubuntu based kernel. This means everything to do with the base operating system is tried and trusted. We use a lot of Debian and Ubuntu installs, so having this run underneath Proxmox VE was an added bonus for us.
  • The web UI does not work as well on mobile devices. It is useable, but a mobile optimised / responsive UI would be nice to have. There is a mobile app, so that may alleviate this issue, but I have not yet tried it.
  • Support in the community forums could be better. There are paid support plans, but new users trying out the software will not have access to this. Answers to questions can sometimes be terse, and I can imagine this may put some people off.
  • The wiki is a bit hit and miss with certain topics. I've often seen outdated or missing information, and the whole thing looks like it could do with some polish. I'd love to see it opened up for the community to add to.
From my own experience, I believe Proxmox VE to be very well suited for small businesses that need a virtualisation solution without breaking the bank. You can start off with the free edition and that might very well be all you need. If you do require a paid plan, there are multiple plans to choose from, to suit most budgets. This isn't to say it not's suitable for medium and large businesses, but I have no personal experience of it at that scale. Organisations with experience of Debian and/or Ubuntu based systems, will feel right at home straight away. The base OS is mostly unchanged from upstream so things generally just work as you'd expect them to. One scenario that might make you think twice about Proxmox VE, is if you have already standardised on non-ZFS storage, such as hardware RAID. Although I'm sure this can be made to work, Proxmox really shines when used in combination with ZFS.
January 29, 2019

Proxmox VE 5.3

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I required a virtualization environment that was free, easy to set up, was able to cluster, and worked on existing hardware. After trying several other solutions, I decided on Proxmox VE. It is currently being used in a Lab environment to build test servers for training and application development before going into production.
  • 100% free. Unlike other products, Proxmox is completely free.
  • Supports both UEFI and BIOS virtualization.
  • Supports Windows, Linux, and containers host VMs.
  • Several options are available for storage. CephFS, the clustered built-in network storage, needs to be installed via the console or ssh. Other options like iSCSI do not support host migration.
Proxmox VE is a great solution, it runs on old desktops and is perfect for setting up a lab and training. There is free support from online forums and articles. I have been running ProxMox VE on three HP Workstations with 32GB ram.
The best features I find are:
- Templates which allow you to install and configure a VM, then re-deploy based on the template. This feature makes it quick and easy to deploy VM's.
- Hardware Options, RAM can be configured to a Min & Max value, so will not use 100% if not needed.
- Free Cluster, and the easy live migration of VM's from one server to another server.

Eric Renfro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Proxmox VE has been used to set up, deploy, and manage our QA, development, and production environments to offer high availability, snapshot backup capability, and scalability to allow migration from server to server. Proxmox VE's versatile use of storage options makes it ideal for just about any environment, with the ability to mix and match as needed. For example, using iSCSI for one instance while using Ceph for another. Development can utilize the iSCSI, for some level of speed but reduced redundancy, while Ceph could be used for production for high redundancy and high speed utilization.

I've consulted for various companies and helped them set up and deploy custom Proxmox VE environments for a number of industries. From travel/entertainment, to housing/realtors, and even retail. To this day, they still continue to use Proxmox VE, and love it's power and versatility just like I still do. I continue to use the Proxmox VE server for my home cluster running numerous services, utilizing NFS, GlusterFS, Ceph, and local storage options it provides, with live migration from system to system.
  • Versatility. The ability to utilize more than one type of storage for each instance.
  • Stability. Proxmox VE is the most stable hypervisor management solution I have seen to date. It just keeps going and going and going.
  • Speed. Utilizing Linux KVM and OpenVZ, you get the fastest and more capable virtual machines on the market today. And Proxmox VE's interface is always instantly loaded when you need it.
  • Reliability. Using standard tools, including Red Hat Cluster Suite, and providing command-line tools as well, this makes maintaining and using Proxmox VE more reliable and manageable to quickly get things back in running order when things do happen to stop.
  • OpenVZ is nice, but upstream it's suffering with the ability to keep up with Linux, while LXC, Linux's own container system, could be utilized.
  • RHCS with Pacemaker. When Proxmox VE started, they utilized the original RHCS cluster stack with rgmanager for the resource group management. Since then, RHCS has expanded and brought in Pacemaker to handle the same aspects rgmanager did, but in different and often better more flexible ways.
Versatility and flexibility is Proxmox VEs' greatest strong points. Allowing infinite design capability, you can build infrastructures of various work loads, purposes, and goals and not be restricted by how you do it, or what differences may need to exist between the various infrastructure points. Proxmox VE allows you to design how you need to every time.
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