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Proxmox VE

Overview

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 16, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Joseph Brower
Engineer - Information Technology
Owner and Lead Engineer
Binary Engine
Proxmox VE10 years of experience

Proxmox is a powerful virtualization platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 3, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 mach...
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Verified user
Team Lead
Proxmox VE4 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
Vetted ReviewVerified 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...
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Armando Insfran
Administrator - Professional Services
Network Development Manager
Webservice Solutions
Proxmox VE5 years of experience

The power of cloud everywhere

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 29, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ma...
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Mauro Giannandrea
Engineer - Information Technology
DevOps Specialist
BEE by Growens
Proxmox VE3 years of experience

Free, but same function

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 26, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 machin...
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Yanwen Sun
General Manager - Research & Development
manager
Offload House
Proxmox VE2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Community

€ 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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox…

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

7.5
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Proxmox VE?

Proxmox VE Video

Proxmox VE Demo

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 8.2.

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

(63)

Reviews

(1-5 of 9)

Proxmox Virtual Environment is the best Cluster Management Software

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 13, 2023
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Proxmox VE
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
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.

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 16, 2025
JB
Joseph Brower
Owner and Lead Engineer
Binary Engine (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Proxmox VE
10 years of experience
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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.

Free, but same function

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 26, 2022
YS
Yanwen Sun
manager
Offload House (Research, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Proxmox VE
2 years of experience
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.

Proxmox VE, when you want to be in control of your virtual molding needs!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 12, 2016
ER
Eric Renfro
System Administrator
Mobiquity, Inc. (Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Proxmox VE
8 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Proxmox - Our Best Lab Hypervisor!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2021
JF
Joe Foran
Director Of Information Technology and HIPAA Privacy Officer
Continuum of Care (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Proxmox VE
3 years of experience
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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.
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