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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 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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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

9.2
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Proxmox VE?

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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 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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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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
Proxmox emulates hardware exceptionally well. This makes migration easier between systems. Additionally, the licensing model is friendly and the system is quite featureful. On top of that, by having a common base (Debian Linux) we have access to tools without needing to jump through a lot of hoops. This has made our time to resolution on issues quicker, which has lead to happier customers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Proxmox Virtual Environment is better, less costly, it has better CAPEX and OPEX, is open source and more robust and flexible.
It is an agnostic product, one can use a PC clone or a high end server to install it, and it works flawlessly on both.
The product has a large life cycle, is stable and has few problems and vulnerabilities than the other propietary products.
Armando Insfran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Based on my experience , I selected Proxmox VE because it offers a range of powerful features and functionalities at a lower cost than proprietary platforms such as VMware ESXi and Citrix Hypervisor. Additionally, Proxmox VE is an open-source platform, which means that users have access to the source code and can customize it to meet their specific needs. Proxmox VE is also designed to be easy to use and manage, making it a great choice for small to medium-sized businesses that don't have a dedicated IT staff. Overall, Proxmox VE is a powerful and cost-effective virtualization platform that is well suited for a wide range of scenarios.
Mauro Giannandrea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Proxmox VE is cheaper than VMware, especially upscaling an HA architecture. Compared with other free or less expensive solutions, Proxmox VE is high compatible with more types of hardware solutions and more VM types. From my point of view, Proxmox VE has no competitor at the same price level, it offers the most complete and production-ready HA solution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
well previously we try to find the fast and lite virtualization platform, we try VMware, we try Citrix, but finally we decided to use Proxmox because it suitable for the development software team, fast provision and delete VM, save a lot of time for DevOps Team.
Joe Foran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) (formerly RHEV) and Hyper-V
With an incredibly easy to use interface, quick setup, and wide support for different hardware we found it was the perfect lab tool for our department to build, stage, and eventually move VMs into production with.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've used VirtualBox on desktop systems. It's great for what it is, but it's a whole different ballgame to Proxmox VE. Proxmox provides the virtualisation, like VirtualBox, but on top of that you get a very well oiled management layer, storage integration, clustering, etc.

Prior to Proxmox VE, we did use some instances of basic KVM virtualisation. This is the same virtualisation technology as used under the hood by Proxmox, but without any of the integrations, management tools, and so on, that Proxmox provides. Moving from direct use of KVM, to Proxmox, was like night and day. Proxmox just makes it all very easy and so far, very reliable!
January 29, 2019

Proxmox VE 5.3

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have tried VMWare ESXi, as that was free, but then quickly found out that for cluster I needed the paid version.
Hyper-V server was also tried but did not have an easy high available cluster install without creating a separate domain.
XenServer was a great free alternative, but recently Citrix has limited what the free version can do. The opensource community then branched off and created XCP-NG project. I tried XCP-NG but it does not yet have UEFI support.
Eric Renfro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
VMWare pricing is steep when compared to the Proxmox VE licensing model. You can use Proxmox VE GPL for free to fully evaluate every aspect of it. VMWare also requires you to install software on your virtual machine instances to which you wouldn't normally need. Proxmox VE just utilizes, for the most part, as much of native as it gets.
oVirt lacked in versatility. When you set up storage you are limited to a single storage type, and that's it. Proxmox VE allowed you to mix, match, design, and architect out flexible storage plans in any number of ways.
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