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Proxmox vs Virtuozzo
March 09, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
15★
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete server virtualization management solution, based on KVM virtualization and containers. Powerful and easy to use - Complete server virtualization management with KVM and containers.
4★
Virtuozzo Containers is an operating system virtualization solution that maximizes your investment in server hardware. Virtuozzo Containers is uniquely suited to Cloud server virtualization, enabling near instant provisioning and on-the-fly modification of hosting and Cloud server plans while delivering maximum density, cost efficiency and application performance.
Proxmox and Virtuozzo are both marvelous contraptions designed to make virtualization slightly less soul-draining. They let you run virtual machines and containers, come with shiny web interfaces that promise convenience (but also occasional confusion) and support Linux like a devoted fan club. If you want clustering and high availability, they’ll both happily oblige, provided you perform the correct ritual of configurations, incantations and clicking around until it works.
Proxmox, birthed in the rolling landscapes of Austria in 2008, is the choice of sysadmins who enjoy an open-source, no-nonsense approach to infrastructure. It prefers the solid, well-known KVM hypervisor and LXC for containers, which means no weird proprietary bits lurking under the hood. It also has built-in backup features, because Proxmox developers believe in second chances—unlike the universe, which often doesn’t.
Virtuozzo, on the other hand, has been around since 2001, originating somewhere between Russia and the great expanse of "global enterprise solutions." It’s particularly fond of hosting providers and cloud service businesses, offering them a blend of its own proprietary hypervisor alongside KVM. Unlike Proxmox, it’s quite comfortable charging you money in exchange for commercial support and enterprise-grade reliability, which is fair enough—after all, even a virtual world needs someone to answer the phone when it crashes.
See also: Top 10 Virtualization platforms
Proxmox, birthed in the rolling landscapes of Austria in 2008, is the choice of sysadmins who enjoy an open-source, no-nonsense approach to infrastructure. It prefers the solid, well-known KVM hypervisor and LXC for containers, which means no weird proprietary bits lurking under the hood. It also has built-in backup features, because Proxmox developers believe in second chances—unlike the universe, which often doesn’t.
Virtuozzo, on the other hand, has been around since 2001, originating somewhere between Russia and the great expanse of "global enterprise solutions." It’s particularly fond of hosting providers and cloud service businesses, offering them a blend of its own proprietary hypervisor alongside KVM. Unlike Proxmox, it’s quite comfortable charging you money in exchange for commercial support and enterprise-grade reliability, which is fair enough—after all, even a virtual world needs someone to answer the phone when it crashes.
See also: Top 10 Virtualization platforms
