AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/26/2019

"Proxmox VE Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Virtualize every platform Windows, Linux, and containers.

Supports both UEFI and BIOS virtualization.

Proxmox is one of the best Hypervisor in town and it is completely free.

Support multiple storage types for Host VMS.

Easy to manage image backup and snapshot utility.

Templates allow you to install a VM quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Upgradation of proxmox is way too cumbersome.

Not a large online community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

If you are looking for stable and reliable Hypervisor Proxmox VE is a great solution you can look into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a cluster of Proxmox servers co located in Data center in US and in premises as well. We were using proxmox to host mostly QA, Dev environments and some production servers, these hosts comprises of Windows, CentOs and Ubuntu VMs. We have mounted a single storage volume to all of our servers to save nightly image backups and snapshots.

Proxmox VE's have a ha-cluster functionality so you can easily migrate VMs from 1 proxmox server to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/11/2019

"Proxmox is excellent"

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Although the title of this review is very basic, I think I'm absolutely right, this hypervisor manages VM resources too well, also the way to enter the containers is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

When it comes to reviewing the Qemu VM processor, it shows me something of the hypervisor and not the official name of the processor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YW

YT W.

Manager

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2018

"Excellent and easy virtualization software."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Proxmox VE is 100% free to use, you only pay for support directly from Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. It is incredibly easy to deploy, it can be installed from an ISO or on top of an existing Debian system. Proxmox VE is very versatile - it supports LXC containers as well as QEMU/KVM virtual machines. Documentation for Proxmox VE is very well-made and complete and community support is available on the forums for free. Proxmox natively supports HA clusters. Proxmox uses open-source hypervisors instead of closed source hypervisors like Citrix XenServer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Proxmox is still missing some functions like web-based user management and automatic IP allocation from a pool. Some functions are not available in the web UI and must be done via the CLI. Proxmox is not suitable for selling VMs to customers, as it does not have a customer-facing panel. It is designed for administrators only, not necessarily endusers. Initial setup (especially network) can be a bit of a pain, especially if using a provider that requires custom network configuration like Hetzner or OVH. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

Make sure you work out your architecture before putting PVE into production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

We manage several dedicated servers with various providers around the world. We used to use Docker containers to run our applications but Docker proved to be very cumbersome, as not every application supports Docker out of the box. With Proxmox, we can simply create a virtual machine and install the application like you would on a bare-metal machine, saving us time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB

jon b.

Jon

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2018

"Reliable, flexible, continuously improved virtualization product"

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Price (free) is nice, but the stability and flexibility of the tools are the key. Have run Proxmox cluster for about 5 years now. They continuously improve the product. The capabilities of this product are great. Low footprint on older server hardware, am able to virtualize both windows and linux instances without a problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

So I have to pick something? Documentation. But truthfully, the user community makes up for any voids in their formal documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CO

César O.

Técnico Especialista en Informática de Sistemas

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/28/2018

"Virtualize your company's entire HW infrastructure reliably "

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Simplicity of use and moderate learning curve.

It is a very mature product (more than 10 years)

Easily create and manage VM (KVM) and containers (LXC) through a comprehensive and intuitive web interface that is constantly evolving.

Support for multiple storage types: ZFS, NFS, CIFS, LVM, iCSI, Cepth, GlusterFS... and more

Comprehensive virtualization solution: Role-based management, backups, storage virtualization, firewall, high availability (Cluster), REST AP,I templates, live migration...

Free support via the official forum is very effective.

Very well documented through a very complete wiki, the latest versions have documentation integrated in the web interface.

The web interface is the best thing about this product, it is designed to be easy to use, without hidden menus or excessive clicks. VNC management of virtual machines is also done via the web, using the non-VNC client. If you want to enjoy a desktop experience on the VMs you can easily use SPICE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

A visual network manager is missing as in other similar products. Via web interface there are options to enable/disable NICs or the bond configuration. But if we want to manage virtual networks in an advanced way we will have to use the command line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AR

Alvaro R.

Analista de Soporte Tecnico

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/4/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great Server Virtualization Panel"

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

I love this admin panel for virtualization of servers, what makes it special is that open source, is super easy to use to achieve create VPS, cloud. You can have many operating systems available for installation including CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu and Windows if you want to create a Windows machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Proxmox not dislike at all, I always found it super great to work with this virtualization panel of servers, has a special tool is that you have to connect via SSH to the servers with root access from the same panel. This proxmox panel is very easy to install on any Linux operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

I recommend Proxmox for all those people and companies that require a virtualization administration of servers in a complete, simple, friendly and without much hassle for use as an administrator. If your goal is to sell dedicated servers, VPS and Windows virtual machines, this is a super tool for that, remember that you must have a server to install this program with a lot of hard disk resource, RAM and CPU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

With this panel proxmox I have solved many business issues because my company sells dedicated servers, VPS and virtual machines windows, this panel has been wonderful for me to create all these machines and offer them to my clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DF

David F.

Infrastructure Manager - Operations

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2018

"A really good small business virtualization option"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

The software is based on Debian and works well on a wide hardware base, the software provides a really good simple to use and install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

The system does feel more cottage than enterprise, which while I like I can see others not liking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

While i'm sure the creators or Proxmox would probably disagree, this software works amazing on test platforms and situations with lower-end hardware however despite such amazing HA features and hardware support I do feel that for a larger enterprise this may not be suitable for the core virtualisation platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was looking for a low overhead platform to base some HP Microservers on for a test infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MC

McCourt C.

Systems Development Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/27/2016

"Really Easy KVM and OpenVZ"

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

I love Proxmox.

Its my stand out Opensource project over the last couple of years.

When I first took an interest it was purely for KVM as an alternative to Hyper-V.

But as I became more familiar with containers and Openvz I was sold as the management tools are awesome.

The web admin is great and links to Turnkey Linux add loads of value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Config is tricky, Networking is a pain and upgrading is a nightmare if not managed properly.

Like a bomb could go off at any minute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

Do your research and make sure to properly design your architecture on paper before going live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have replaced our Hyper-V infrastructure completely and I now run Multiple could instances to handle web hosting and VPS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in International Affairs

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/31/2017

"Just switched to version 5 of Proxmox"

5/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

Containers. I've been using Proxmox for 8+ years because of this.

Long before containerization was a thing, long before Docker, Kubernetes and all buzzwords regarding containerization were a thing... it was Proxmox.

There are still features Proxmox support that some virtualization and containerization solutions are still lagging behind, like seamless node migration between machines with zero downtime, memory ballooning and user-space quotas by containers in a shared environment, for example. These features, that are now taking off in commercial solutions, were already present... 8 years ago! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Updating between versions can break things, and due to the nature of LXC containers, switching between kernels can be a pain.

Fortunately, the community is open and easy to interact to, so most issues are easily solvable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

Use distributed storage: Ceph or ZFS over NFS. If you want to benefit from live migrations between nodes of your containers and/or virtual machines, it is mandatory to use them. I know it can be a pain to configure, administer and check that everything works, but at the end it pays off. It's a joy when you have a hardware failure in one node, then you migrate everything to another node and just go a replace the failing hardware without you to worry about data, availability or downtime on your containers/virtual machines... I really recommend you this way,

Also, if you use ZFS, please buy a couple SSDs and add cache to it, as VMs can be really disk-demanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microservices isolation, high availability, server sharding and multiple node resilience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MB

Michael B.

Security Researcher

Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2017

"Easy to use virtualization platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Proxmox VE?

It is very easy to get started with Proxmox VE, in with the disc or USB-stick, follow some easy on-screen instructions and you have a virtualization environment that is very useful. If you want to build a cluster of machines you can do that as well at no additional cost, while other free virtualization platforms like VMWare ESXi reserve clustering functionality to paying customers only. Don't take me wrong, if you are building a business on that Proxmox will always be there for you then you should buy a support contract - but you don't *need* to do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Proxmox VE?

Lack of API support from 3rd party. Proxmox VE isn't Citrix XenServer or VMWare vSphere, meaning that out of the box support from other tools or vendors are limited. Of course there is a well documented API so you can automate all the menial tasks, but there is not so much support from 3rd party products that takes advantage of Proxmox API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Proxmox VE:

Unless you have a requirement for 3rd party software to control and automate your Proxmox VE I can't recommend it enough. Unfortunately I had such requirements and it would take too much resources from the main objective to add support for Proxmox VE API then to switch to an already supported platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Proxmox VE solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was building a lab for malware analysis where free access to the components is a key design requirements because I want make sure that the results can be recreated by anyone on a very limited budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.