Proxmox is a powerful virtualization platform
January 03, 2025

Proxmox is a powerful virtualization platform

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Proxmox VE

We are using Proxmox to virtualize machines that we use for development and for services offered for our clients. We cut costs and reduce deployment time by using virtual machines for ecommerce development.

Pros

  • Easy to create and manage virtual machines
  • Good network configuration flexbility
  • Can be customized

Cons

  • Some errors are hard do debug
  • Lack of GUI for certain configurations
  • Backup and restore are not as intuitive as they could be
  • Reduced costs with cloud services
  • Reduced costs with real machines
  • Reduced devops work load
The interface is easy to use for most of it, but still lacks screens for some configurations. Also, a few of the screens are not as intuitive as they could be. This is specially true with disk and network configuration, where some graphic/visual representations of the configurations would be very useful.
Proxmox is somewhat more flexible (for being a Linux distro) than VMware. VMWare's network configuration is more robust and well implemented, but it lacks lots of resources that Proxmox has, like ZFS for example. Overall I think both solutions offer good tools and the best option really depends on whats needed on any specific project.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Proxmox VE go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Proxmox VE again?

Yes

I believe Proxmox can be very useful for replacing jobs usually done by real machines, like deploying web servers, network services, etc. Its also an invaluable tool for companies offering a SaaS, as it permits to easily run different virtual machines with specific network configurations. I don't believe, however, that its well suited to very high demand applications, were a more easily scalable solution (like a cloud service) would work better.

Proxmox VE Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
7
Management console
7
Live virtual machine backup
8
Live virtual machine migration
6
Hypervisor-level security
8

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