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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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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