Item: Proxmox VE
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Proxmox container is very powerful and super fast, provision one VM around less than 1minutes, very good for development, DevOps
The cluster of Proxmox is powerful, its enterprise class already this features, and using less resource, CPU, RAM of dedicated server
Storage cluster the most powerful I love, its support many simple storage type, icci, cifs, samba, NFS, easy to integrated with another SAN
Backup Schedule also powerful that I can schedule backup VM every night, hour, it work perfectly.

actually, when the cluster is breaking, it's very difficult to rejoin it back
the command line maybe i am not using the paid option, i use the normal version without subscription, less information that i can find.

Return on Investment

using Proxmox you pay less and you gain more
the amount you paid for data center is around 1% of your revenue only
for non-profit i recommend using Proxmox for data center.
Proxmox IT support from low end hardware to high spec hardware.

Alternatives Considered

Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)

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.

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

I recommend Proxmox virtualization for the development environment for opensource, especially for DevOps company, it's free or paid depending on your budget, but features full functionality and saves time for the developer to create the container, VM for testing the software.

Proxmox VE best Virtualization for DevOps

Overall Satisfaction with Proxmox VE