Item: Proxmox VE
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

It facilitates the management of a cluster of servers.
It has a GUI that simplifies the configuration of services within the cluster.
It supports many superb technologies such as CEPH, ZFS, live migration, snapshots, etc.
It is based on a Linux standard and stable distribution such as Debian.
It adopts many standards.
It is a robust environment for virtual machines and containers.

Could provide more GUI assistance for certain tasks.
Could adopt other standards of distributed file systems such as GlusterFS or Lustre.
Could implement continuous migration or snapshots, added to timed snapshots and live and cold migration.

Return on Investment

The CAPEX and OPEX is much better tha other similar products.
Being open source, free software, is the better price one could find.
If the regulations or the risk management requires the adoption of a technical support contract, Proxmox offers such a service.

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued), Microsoft Azure and Citrix DaaS

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.

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

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, Ubuntu Linux, pfSense

Likelihood to Recommend

We used Proxmox to implement private cloud services, for clusters
of a small number of servers, from 3 to 11 with and without high
availability. Allways with ZFS file systems, and we used to install the
root pool in SSDs mirrored and use other pools with RAID 10 in groups of
four, for the virtual machines and containers, for the backups and snapshots, we used magnetic disks with RAID 10, in groups of four. Do
not use an even number of servers because does not facilitates the
implementation of High Availability, because the corosync service must
have an odd number of servers to detect a failed server for the quorum
system. We used a variety of servers, from clone PCs with AMD Ryzen with 6 cores and 12 threads with 64 GB of RAM no ECC, to high end servers with 64 cores and 128 threads per cpu and 2 cpus per server, with AMD EPYC Rome or Milan, 2 terabytes of RAM ECC.

Proxmox Virtual Environment is the best Cluster Management Software

Overall Satisfaction with Proxmox VE