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Virtual environments play a significant role in modern IT infrastructures. Given the increasing licensing costs of VMware post-acquisition by Broadcom, businesses are exploring alternative virtualization platforms. This study evaluates two leading hypervisors, Microsoft Hyper-V and Proxmox Virtual Environment, in terms of CPU performance, storage efficiency, and network throughput. To this end, we implemented a three-node high-availability cluster on Windows and Linux, and executed CrystalDiskMark, Sysbench, Geekbench, KDiskMark, and iPerf3 benchmarks on them. Our results indicate that Hyper-V provides better performance for Windows virtual machines, while Proxmox offers higher performance for Linux virtual machines. However, the differences in performance between the two tools are minimal. Additionally, Proxmox offers a more user-friendly cluster setup, whereas Hyper-V requires higher technical expertise.

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Evaluating Hyper-V vs. Proxmox: Performance Comparison for Virtualization

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    2026年

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  • Ivan Vakal,
  • Edwin Regalado,
  • Germán H. Alférez

摘要

Virtual environments play a significant role in modern IT infrastructures. Given the increasing licensing costs of VMware post-acquisition by Broadcom, businesses are exploring alternative virtualization platforms. This study evaluates two leading hypervisors, Microsoft Hyper-V and Proxmox Virtual Environment, in terms of CPU performance, storage efficiency, and network throughput. To this end, we implemented a three-node high-availability cluster on Windows and Linux, and executed CrystalDiskMark, Sysbench, Geekbench, KDiskMark, and iPerf3 benchmarks on them. Our results indicate that Hyper-V provides better performance for Windows virtual machines, while Proxmox offers higher performance for Linux virtual machines. However, the differences in performance between the two tools are minimal. Additionally, Proxmox offers a more user-friendly cluster setup, whereas Hyper-V requires higher technical expertise.