Differences between VMware vSphere & Proxmox

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hajarsabrani

7 February 2023

VWware vSphere

VWware vSphere is a software suite product from VMware which contains VMware ESXi, vCenter, etc.
There are 3 types of this product, namely Standard, Enterprise and Operations Management Enterprise Plus.

Here are some of the features of vSphere 6

ESXi scalability, supports clustering up to 64 hosts, can run 8000 VMs per cluster, 480 Logical CPUs, 12TB RAM per host, 1024 VMs, 128 CPUs per VM, and 4TB RAM per VM, and also supports hot-add RAM, USB 3.0
Supports Nvidia GRID technology (vGPU and vDGA), which is a technology where VMs can use Nvidia VGA directly to hardware without passing through the Hypervisor
vCenter scalability, supporting up to 1000 hosts and 10,000 VMs.
And also supports PostgreSQL database
There is vSphere App HA (High Availability)
There is a vSphere Web Client, which can manage vCenter or ESXi through a web client.
There is vMotion which can migrate VMs directly through virtual switches, vCenter, and with up to 150ms RTT.
There is vSphere Replication which can back up VMs in the event of a disaster.

Proxmox

Proxmox Virtual Environment or abbreviated as PVE is an opensource virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliance based on KVM and OpenVZ.Proxmox was developed by Proxmox Server Solution GmbH in GermanyFor Proxmox management, you can use a web browser, almost similar to VMware ESXi.
Proxmox is included in the type of native or bare-metal hypervisor.

The important points in Proxmox are:

Supports almost all operating systems as VMs.
Has kernel 4.4 on Proxmox 4.2 version
Supports the latest Intel and AMD chipsets
Easy management using web interface

Conclusion

A. Guests Support For guests who will use Linux as a server, it is recommended to use vSphere or Proxmox. Because Hyper-V only some Linux is supported.
while for guests who use Windows Server, it is better to use Hyper-V or Proxmox, because on ESXi it may be fine during the installation process, but when using it sometimes there are errors.
Maybe in the latest version the problem has been resolved

B. Scalability

Hyper-V

Host = 4TB RAM, 1024 VMs, 8000 VMs/cluster Guest = 64 CPUs, 1TB RAM, 64TB VHDX

ESXi

Host = 12TB RAM, 1024 VMs, 8000 VMs/cluster Guest = 128 CPUs, 4TB RAM

Proxmox

because it is opensource based, so the maximum CPU, RAM etc. can be set by yourself

C. Featured FeaturesOfferedHyper-V features Hyper-V Generation 2, which provides PXE boot using standard network adapters, booting from SCSI virtual HDDs and DVDs, secure boot, and UEFI firmware support. vSphere Supports Nvidia GRID technology (vGPU and vDGA), which is a technology where VMs can use Nvidia VGA directly to hardware without passing through the Hypervisor.
For further explanation, please see the video above. Proxmox Virtual Environment Complete free and opensource, so this PVE is completely free and because it is opensource, we can change the settings as we need.

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