Proxmox VE Reviews

The primary use case for Proxmox VE is virtualization for a company and migration of some clients to Proxmox. We implement virtual machines.

For my customer, it's too early to say that, but we hope they are satisfied with it. For our strategy in the interim, we are looking to promote this product in the future.

The web page, the dashboard, and the ease of use are most valuable. The documentation and the community support are also very helpful.

For now, it’s too early to determine what needs improvement as it's only been three months. I don't have enough experience to say what can be improved.

I have used the solution for three months.

Proxmox VE is stable. At the beginning, there were some minor issues, but they were easily resolved.

I have not tried to scale it yet.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took only one day to deploy. Clear documentation made the process smooth.

During the initial setup, I just followed instructions from my manager.

The pricing is very competitive. Proxmox VE is more affordable than its competitors, such as VMware.

I researched Amazon, Azure, IBM Watson, and others.

Please read the official documentation thoroughly. It is comprehensive and very useful.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I can enter Proxmox VE on VPN. Proxmox VE is very lightweight, and it doesn't take a lot of memory on the device. I can import OVA files inside Proxmox VE. I love Proxmox VE's backup, which is very, very powerful. Also, we can directly install a container inside Proxmox VE.

Since I face issues importing Windows OVA inside Proxmox VE, a clickable button should be added to select the OVA format and import it inside Proxmox VE. It would also be beneficial to view the import and import of the VM inside Proxmox VE.

I have been using Proxmox VE for three years.

Proxmox VE is a stable solution. I rate Proxmox VE a seven out of ten for stability.

Two people are using Proxmox VE on my site.

Before Proxmox VE, I used VMware. I switched to Proxmox VE because I love Linux. I can install online logs and automate some stuff on Proxmox VE. Also, people recommended I use Proxmox VE.

Since I do not deploy Proxmox VE in a production environment, I do the installation and maintenance myself.

I cannot subscribe to Proxmox VE's support because it is expensive.

I am using the latest version of Proxmox VE. Proxmox VE is a very, very good solution with good features.

It would be good if you could make a cloud image of Proxmox VE for Amazon, Azure, or Google.

Overall, I rate Proxmox VE an eight out of ten.

The initial setup was very easy.

We use the inventory aspect of the solution. It's not just a platform meant for network monitoring. We also use it for inventory maintenance also. For example, I can know if a server was down and for how long. I can see the performance. 

There are advanced plugins that are available. We can extend our network through these. 

There are models written in C as well.

It's been a stable solution. 

We can scale the solution if we need to. 

The pricing is quite reasonable. 

We are not fully satisfied with the solution. 

We have some streams of data from different channels. We have to try to figure out how to monitor everything. There's no great integration of everything. We are not able to identify everything. 

We are only just able to see ICMP and TCP checks happening.

Some systems are there which don't have protocol support. 

The templates and reporting could be better.

We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues. 

We've been using the solution for four to five years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We have found the product to be scalable. 

Our IP team, security, and monitoring are the only people using the solution. 

We used to other products also. However, this product is better actually. In terms of display metrics, et cetera, the infrastructure, and geo-mapping as well as developing the dashboard and all the additional features have been good.

The solution is simple to set up. There are certain credentials and you simply provide them. 

The price is good. It is very manageable. The licensing is yearly.

We are end-users. 

We use the solution within our own network. It's not public. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

We are cloud providers. We install the product to serve our customers.

KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution.

We are having some problems with the product. It is suitable for small companies with 20 to 100 servers. My organization has more than 2500 servers in the hypervisor platform. We have problems when we try to migrate some servers to Proxmox. We are facing issues with disk utilization and disk performance. We are considering migrating all the servers back to VMware. The product must improve the disk performance and disc issues in general. The servers in Proxmox freeze sometimes. The file systems become read-only file systems after we restart the server. These are the main problems we are having nowadays.

I have been using the solution for a year.

I rate the tool’s stability a five out of ten.

I rate the tool’s scalability a three out of ten. We set up 50 servers in our environment, which worked well. Then, when the virtual server numbers increased to 100, it worked fine. Later, when it was around 200 to 300, the performance got worse. It is getting worse with time. The more we scale, the more we have problems. Currently, we have 300 to 350 virtual servers. Our customers are small businesses.

We have trouble getting help from the support team.

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I rate the ease of setup a four or five out of ten. The initial setup is not exactly difficult, but it is not easy either.

If the deployment is not very detailed, it takes us one day.

I rate the pricing a three out of ten. The product is free. There is no licensing fee. However, we do have to pay to get support. The support costs are reasonable.

I am using the latest version of the solution. I would recommend the solution for small businesses. I would not recommend it for medium and large enterprises. Overall, I rate the product a four out of ten.

The solution is used for virtualization, web servers, databases, and S3 storage spaces.

The most valuable feature is that the solution is free of cost.

The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable.

I have been using the solution for several years.

The solution is stable. I have not had any issues in the last two years.

The solution is only one node, so it is not scalable.

The initial setup is straightforward.

There is no subscription required for Proxmox VE.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We require 15 people for the deployment and maintenance of the solution including two developers.

We have around 400 web visitors that are supported by the solution per day.

We have two environments. We run one with Proxmox VE and the other with VMware.

I recommend the solution to others.

Proxmox is a virtual machine and container suite with everything in one place. It does not use Docker directly but uses a specific tool called LXC for containers. They also use it with KVM to offer customers a unified and easy-to-use graphical tool along with a very powerful command line suite of tools for visualization.

Proxmox is from Germany. It is a free product that has all the features, just like the commercial license. The difference is that the customer has access to additional repositories in commercially licensed versions. These include extra plug-ins and capabilities that eventually are used in a production environment.

The free or community edition has a complete suite of virtualization tools and high availability capabilities to provide a complete scenario for production, testing, etc. Proxmox VE is a very, very good product. Proxmox VE is a Debian Linux-based product that can be downloaded on an ISO archive or installed in a Debian Linux environment that the customer already has.

The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows customers to use the power of KVM easily. KVM is a very powerful and difficult tool to use, but Proxmox VE makes it easy.

Proxmox VE editions should be made available to other Linux distributions because they are only attached to Debian. There are people unfamiliar with Debian or have no environment with Debian. It would be very nice if Proxmox VE could eventually port to other Linux distributions.

I have been using Proxmox VE for ten years.

Proxmox VE is a very stable solution.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

Proxmox VE is a very scalable solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability ten out of ten.

The solution’s pricing is very fair. The solution's pricing is cheaper than other solutions like VMware, Hyper-V, or Oracle.

Since Proxmox VE has its own firewall, I can use it eventually to manage access to my different virtual machines and containers. The solution provides very good security.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

I'm using Proxmox VE for virtual machines on three servers, mainly for the database and the application and email server.

High availability and self healing 

The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage.

Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better.

I think it support esxi migration tools which is awesome 

I have been using Proxmox VE for approximately  7 years.

Proxmox VE is highly stable, it is a great solution as a hypervisor.

The scalability of Proxmox VE is good.

We have approximately three administrators that use the solution. We do not have plans to increase the usage.

We have approximately 20 virtual machines on the Proxmox VE server.

I have not needed direct support from Proxmox VE. I have found the community support enough.

I switched from VMware to Proxmox VE.

The initial setup of Proxmox VE was straightforward.

There is an annual license to use Proxmox VE and it is approximately $90. There are not any additional costs.

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I rate Proxmox VE a ten out of ten.

This is a free version of VMware and that's why we're using it. It does everything that VMware can do and it's more flexible. We were looking for a virtual solution and we're a startup, so the cheapest is best. We are customers of Proxmox and I'm the technology operations manager. 

The feature I like best about this product is the fact that they have independent nodes. Proxmox is based on KVM and essentially you could lose a node. All the hosts that are running are evacuated elsewhere in the cluster and away you go. I have reduced infrastructure and I'm familiar with it because at the heart of the hypervisor is Debian Linux and I'm a Linux administrator. It didn't require learning a whole new platform and it's so easy to use. Proxmox will be in my toolbox forever, I love it.

This is a really great solution and the more VMware raises their costs, the more appealing it is. I'd be very nervous if I were one of the big companies because you're going to have administrators like myself discovering Proxmox and the cost is zero. With this solution, when something goes wrong, you Google it, you figure out the problem and fix it. Of course if you're an enterprise company, that's something else.

The product should have more enterprise features, perhaps DRS. I don't think Proxmox has the ability to sense that a host is running hot and needs to be evacuated. So DRS, dynamic resource scheduling, is a feature that constantly monitors the host and if it sees a particular host taking up a lot of resources, it will take that host off and throw it on a different host in the cluster that's not running as hot and doesn't have as much utilization. It protects the overall cluster 

As above, I think the DRS would be a helpful additional feature.

I've been using this solution for six months. 

As long as you're monitoring your host yourself, it's a stable solution. 

I can't really speak to the scalability. I haven't looked into it yet. We're a very small company and we have about five people using the solution, all at the director or senior level. We have a senior application developer, and a director level manager who brought the product in.

Does a three and a half minute setup sound reasonable to you? When I first installed it, I thought there must be more to it. I downloaded the ISO onto a thumb drive and made it bootable. Then you boot the server, boot off the thumb drive. You have to answer about six questions and that's it. Very simple. 

My only recommendation to anyone thinking of implementing this solution is to read up on it, but give it some serious consideration because it really is a great product. In other words, don't let the freeware label scare you off.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10.