Proxmox VE Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

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.

Reviews

11 Reviews

Proxmox is a powerful virtualization platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2025

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

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Proxmox can be very useful for replacing jobs usually done by real machines, like deploying web servers, network services, etc. Its also an invaluable tool for companies offering a SaaS, as it permits to easily run different virtual machines with specific network configurations. I don't believe, however, that its well suited to very high demand applications, were a more easily scalable solution (like a cloud service) would work better.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Proxmox Virtual Environment is the best Cluster Management Software

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 13, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>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.</div><div>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.</div>

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 7, 2023

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Armando Insfran

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

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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The power of cloud everywhere

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Mauro Giannandrea

DevOps Specialist in Information Technology at BEE by Growens (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Free, but same function

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 26, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Yanwen Sun

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Proxmox allows for easy deployment, management, and peace of mind when virtualizing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Joseph Brower

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

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Proxmox VE best Virtualization for DevOps

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Proxmox - Our Best Lab Hypervisor!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Feature-rich virtualization.
Open-standards compliance.
Redundancy and failover capability.

Cons

VDI brokering - it doesn't do this natively.
Hyperconvergence is still nascent and requires a lot of work.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Joe Foran

Director Of Information Technology and HIPAA Privacy Officer in Information Technology at Continuum of Care (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Great virtualisation environment built upon trusted open source technologies.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>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:</div><div><ul><li>ZFS data storage.</li><li>Hosting web applications for internal use.

</li><li>Hosting client websites during development.

</li><li>Network administration (DNS, mail relay, log server, etc.).</li><li>Automation of software builds.</li></ul>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.

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Proxmox VE 5.3

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 29, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

100% free. Unlike other products, Proxmox is completely free.
Supports both UEFI and BIOS virtualization.
Supports Windows, Linux, and containers host VMs.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

<div>The best features I find are:</div><div>- 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.</div><div>- Hardware Options, RAM can be configured to a Min & Max value, so will not use 100% if not needed.</div><div>- Free Cluster, and the easy live migration of VM's from one server to another server.</div><div>

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Chris Thibeau

Technical Support Analyst in Information Technology at Nova Scotia Provincial Gov (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Great virtualisation environment built upon trusted open source technologies.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

</li><li>Hosting client websites during development.

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience