[SOLVED] Are there any companies that extensively use PVE in daily production environments?

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Are there any companies that extensively use PVE in daily production environments?
Our data center currently utilizes commercial virtualization software. When issues arise, we rely on the vendor for support. However, the downside is the high cost, particularly regarding maintenance and support fees. I am considering switching to open-source PVE, but I’m concerned that my technical expertise might be insufficient to handle troubleshooting during a failure. I am still hesitating.
 
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chenwb said:
Are there any companies that extensively use PVE in daily production environments?
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What do you mean by extensively? Most people use it as their only virtualization platform in various setups for many years, even decades. A few years ago, there was a post by Proxmox stuff about the install numbers, yet I cannot find it anymore. It was IIRC 5-digit numbers.
 
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While these threads are storage-slanted, the feedback it the threads is from companies running successful businesses, almost exclusively on Proxmox Virtualization Environment:

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Thread 'New cluster - storage solution'

For a new cluster we are investigating storage solutions. Cluster(s) will be 20 nodes in size, so nothing local and had to do failover and such.
Current clusters running on ultra-low-latency nvme, so ceph, NFS and zfs over iscsi ruled out.

Been speaking to various suppliers this week. Some of them offer a solution not natively integrating with proxmox, some of them. Well.. one does: blockbridge.

Does anyone have experience running on blockbridge, since they seem to be the only guys to have a native integration with promox?

@bbgeek17 you are not allowed to comment, although I do...

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Thread 'Storage for small clusters, any good solutions?'

Hi there,
the Title may be a bit deceptive as I know there are good solutions that work for many but for me/my workplace we face a bit of a dilemma.

I know I'm opening this can of worms again and this is also partly me venting a bit of my frustration and I'm sorry about that.

We wanna use Proxmox VE more or rather be able to get more of our customers to be able to switch to it. Many are already interested but for most of them the lack of a true cluster-aware filesystem is a problem.


I know that you can have a shared-lvm on a SAN storage and now even make snapshots with it since Version...

Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
 
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Our data center currently utilizes commercial virtualization software. When issues arise, we rely on the vendor for support. However, the downside is the high cost, particularly regarding maintenance and support fees. I am considering switching to open-source PVE, but I’m concerned that my technical expertise might be insufficient to handle troubleshooting during a failure. I am still hesitating.
 
You can purchase different subscriptions to receive support directly from Proxmox (fast and very professional) if desired. Proxmox VE and their other products are very mature. We use their products on every customer site, ranging from small single node systems to large clusters on a wide scale of different hardware. And (thumbs up to the Proxmox team) we never had a real downtime within the last 8 years which resulted from the OS / software itself. Only „regular“ fails like dead mobos, drives, cooling, etc. which happens regardless of the OS.

The forum is always a good place to get help.
 
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gfngfn256 said:
According to this page - in 2025 it was 6-digits (1,500,000 +)!
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Technically 1,500,000 has 7-digits ;)

Sadly, the page you refered to does not quote any real sources, but I just found the press release from Proxmox itself and yes, the 1,5M hosts is valid:

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-celebrates-20-years

I also found my source again and it was the 10 years celebration with 73k Hosts:

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/10-years-of-proxmox
 
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chenwb said:
Our data center currently utilizes commercial virtualization software. When issues arise, we rely on the vendor for support. However, the downside is the high cost, particularly regarding maintenance and support fees. I am considering switching to open-source PVE, but I’m concerned that my technical expertise might be insufficient to handle troubleshooting during a failure. I am still hesitating.
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Why the hell are you editing your first post and replace the whole text? Do we need a policy like Reddit does for this behaviour here too?
 
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LnxBil said:
Technically 1,500,000 has 7-digits
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Typo (the 2 keys are not far apart ;)).

LnxBil said:
Why the hell are you editing your first post
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I agree that behavior seems odd, only to remove (I believe) "Are there any companies that extensively use PVE in daily production environments?"

I must also say, I found the initial query rather perplexing. I wonder what this is actually about.
 
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gfngfn256 said:
Typo (the 2 keys are not far apart ;)).


I agree that behavior seems odd, only to remove (I believe) "Are there any companies that extensively use PVE in daily production environments?"

I must also say, I found the initial query rather perplexing. I wonder what this is actually about.
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