Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform from Proxmox Server Solutions (Vienna, Austria) that combines KVM virtual machines and LXC containers under a single web management UI. It targets homelabs, SMBs, and increasingly enterprises seeking an open alternative to commercial hypervisor suites. Built-in clustering, high availability, live migration, and integrated ZFS and Ceph storage cover most private-cloud needs without add-on products. The software is free to run under the AGPLv3; Proxmox sells optional enterprise-repository subscriptions per CPU socket for stable updates and support.
open-sourcekvmlxcself-hostedhomelabha-clustering
Overview
- Founded
- 2005
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Private cloud / virtualization
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Hypervisor
- KVM
- Hyperconverged
- Yes
- Management UI
- Yes
- Live migration
- Yes
- HA clustering
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes: Fully free under AGPLv3; paid enterprise-repository subscriptions per CPU socket for stable updates and support.