Item: Proxmox VE
Rating: 10
Author: Joe Foran

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 and Cons

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

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

Return on Investment

Free lab!

Alternatives Considered

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.

Key Insights

Do you think Proxmox VE delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Proxmox VE's feature set?

Yes

Did Proxmox VE live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Proxmox VE go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Proxmox VE again?

Yes

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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Overall Satisfaction with Proxmox VE