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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

9.1
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

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Score 10 out of 10
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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.
Server Virtualization (5)
92%
9.2
Virtual machine automated provisioning
100%
10.0
Management console
100%
10.0
Live virtual machine backup
90%
9.0
Live virtual machine migration
100%
10.0
Hypervisor-level security
70%
7.0
  • Faster QA and development deployments, the ability to launch instances, do what needs to be done, and destroy as needed, even automatically through API calls.
  • Stability and uptime provided through the use of Proxmox VE has enabled services to stay available longer through high availability clustering, live migration, and just very good software.
  • Growth capability with Proxmox VE allowed growing businesses to start small, and grow as time and revenue flowed allowing for further capacity and functionality without having to do much more than add additional hardware.
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.
10
System Administrators, Developers, Quality Assurance. Administrators manage and work directly with Proxmox VE, while Developers and QA utilized the services provided. The company was struggling at the time to decide on whether to continue using physical hardware versus virtualization, and the administrators decided to put in virtualization under their nose in secret. Turns out nobody even noticed, and so Proxmox VE won great victories to improve high availability options, and reduce overall costs at the same time.
5
Debian Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS), and how to use a bash command-line and Web Browser is the most fundamental baseline skills needed to fully manage Proxmox VE. For high availability clustering, Proxmox VE uses RHCS which has it's own learning curve to understand. Beyond that, it's basic Linux and Debian-specific knowledge.
  • QA: Being able to have exact snapshots of instances to test against to verify everything in a test scenario.
  • Development: Being able to have environments specifically designed, and re-deployable for purposes of development.
  • Production: High availability options to keep systems up, available, and responding to customer-facing services.
  • Downsizing hundreds of physical servers to a smaller number of virtual machine appliances that can auto-scale up as needed and easily grown.
  • Spinning up temporary appliances to test provisioning and destroy when done, used for testing integrations and specific software for future changes.
  • Integrating Jenkins into Proxmox VE to fully integration test full new builds under Continuous Integration, for both development and administration.
  • Building monitoring solutions to utilize Proxmox VE API to monitor metrics and report issues, and provide scaling forecasts.
Proxmox VE provides the most capable, yet stable virtualization platform in the market today. Licensing options are also competitive and cost-effective for support, and support is extremely fast and knowledgable of getting issues resolved as quickly and soundly as possible.
Yes
VMware ESXi Server was replaced because of exponentially increasing costs, stability and lack of flexibility in comparison to what Proxmox VE was able to provide, and more native and powerful solutions for on-demand needs -- such as Proxmox VE's ability to automatically balloon memory more reliably and faster, both growing and shrinking memory, plus the use of KSM to reduce multiple redundant instances overall overhead -- This was possible because of standards built into Linux were facilitated instead of proprietary software that needed to be installed just to get the same functionality.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Proxmox VE itself is free to use, fully GPL code, which makes for licensing to be extremely nice. Paying for it we get enterprise built versions that don't change too often, and are very well tested for every factor before being made available. Essentially locking the version in use in a way that retains it's long term stability while also making updating to newer versions more seamless and fully tested to less stressful to maintain overall.
I would try everything out there with ample time and opportunity to fully evaluate the overall product in testing environments that can be stressed as much as possible to give reliable determined results. Afterwards, determining operational costs to use the top 3 products would be used to determine what would be the most cost effective solution amongst them to know what will actually help profit on our side of things, and not cost more than operating costs resulting in a specific product selection.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
We had implemented Proxmox VE into our QA environment first as a proof of concept, to prove that it was capable of reducing costs, improving reliability and backup capability, and providing very similar performance to physical hardware. Change Management was, in this case, done behind the scenes and provided after-the-fact to show it was done and could be done completely transparently.
  • No issues were encountered during the implementation.
It worked, was easy and super fast to deploy, and provided everything we needed in a matter of minutes.
  • Self-taught
It was easier than any product I have ever used overall. Proxmox built this in a way that is easy, well thought out, and very thorough without being overly complicated or super advanced. Can you do the advanced things with it as well? Absolutely! When I first started using Proxmox VE several years ago, setting up the high availability clustering was a bit of a hands-on experience, today that's literally fully automated and easily set up in the web interface. I've used quite a few platforms similar to what Proxmox VE provides and none can compare in just how powerful yet easy Proxmox VE is, and backed entirely by Linux, KVM and LXC, nothing else really matters.
Yes
I pay for premium support for the enterprise repository for the product, the reliable, well-tested, and well supported product. The support while it is there, and it is nice, I rarely use as my experience in the realm of virtualization and system engineering is high already, I do however use support to report any actual problems found in the product, ideas and suggestions that I come up with to help better the product even in the smallest of ways, and they definitely listen to that. As a result, the latest versions of their product is even better now than when I first started using Proxmox VE over 3 years ago.
They are fast, understanding, very intelligent, know their product very well, fast, responsive, and concise. Need I say more?
Yes
I reported a bug on the firewall support functionality of Proxmox VE, that would cause IPv6 to completely fail when enabled. Even with the appropriate rules in place it would continue to fail. After reporting the bug, not long after the problem was fixed and IPv6 support was finally working through to my instances as I was hoping for.
I had a problem with IPv6 support in Proxmox VE, and as said before, it was a bug that was ultimately reported and communicated on. This problem was not entirely show-stopping but it was important for me to have functional in the long run. Proxmox support teams worked with me to get this problem solved as quickly as possible to the point I was very surprised. Some work-arounds were suggested and they kind of worked, but in the end Proxmox provided updates to the software to fix the root cause resulting in my successful utilization of IPv6 with firewalls fully enabled to keep my environment more secure.
  • Managing and setting up local and remote disk storage devices.
  • Starting and stopping virtual instances or containers.
  • Defining complex features easily, such as high availability, memory scaling, CPU and Network clocks given, etc.
  • The API is a bit cumbersome still, because there are not many clients out there that provide a common useful lead scope into it, but the API is fully there regardless. It would be helpful if Proxmox VE could provide some core concepts in various languages to help feed this some.
Yes
The mobile interface is provided via the same web service as the main web interface already provided. It's responsive and very fast, and very well organized and easy to use and navigate and be used to manage everything equally as well as the standard web user interface. I am very happy that the mobile interface is so nice and is slightly more optimized for mobile use to make it easier to use on such a device, and they did a very good job on that.
Out of every product I have used for this, Proxmox VE is the most concise, clear, and functional I have ever seen. I continue to use Proxmox VE even after occasionally comparing alternatives available because of it's usability, design concept, and great support of features. It's very unlikely I will find a product that can even compete with Proxmox VE in every angle of what Proxmox VE provides.
Proxmox VE provides everything you need to quickly add new storage mediums, network and local, as well as networking interfaces, such as using Linux standard bridges and now Open-vSwitch bridges which can be even more scalable than before. Proxmox VE 4.0 dropped support for OpenVZ in favor of the more well supported and native LXC and made an upgrade path to it very simple.
Proxmox VE's ha-cluster functionality is very much improved, though does have a not-very-often occurrence of failure. In a 2-node cluster of Proxmox VE, HA can fail causing an instance that is supposed to migrate between the two nodes stop and fail until manually recovered through the command-line tools provided. Other than this, the HA clustering capability of Proxmox VE has proven to be reliable in 3 or more clustered environments with much less chance of these failures to occur.
Proxmox VE's interfacing is always fast to load, both the Web interface and the command-line tool interfaces. Reporting is practically real time almost all the time, and you can see everything in mere seconds, easily able to identify if something is wrong or it everything is in tip-top shape as always desired.
Yes
I upgraded from Proxmox VE 3.x to 4.x, which involved a full host update from Debian 7 to Debian 8 as well. The documentation provided for doing the update process was very well done, and the actual process of doing the update was very painless. Beyond the basic scope of Debian itself and how it handles updates, there was no issues at all from Debian or Proxmox VE on dedicated Proxmox VE systems.
  • Removing OpenVZ to provide LXC instead.
  • systemd provided on the Proxmox VE Debian operating system allows the system to boot up and be ready much faster.
  • The new High Availability support, easier to use and easier to configure overall as compared to the RHCS rgmanager formerly used.
  • LXC containers for faster more well supported containers.
Yes
Free to Paid. The change was very easy, in fact literally completely painless. Changed repository URLs to the enterprise package repos, updated, and all was done. The primary reason for the change was to get locked and reliable versions of the product and support for the product when needed. even if rarely needed as it has been.
No
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