Document Type

Publication - Article

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

Authors

Ivan Vakal, Southern Adventist UniversityFollow
Edwin Regalado, Southern Adventist UniversityFollow
Germán H. Alférez, Southern Adventist UniversityFollow

Department

Computing

Date of Activity

10-20-2025

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Vakal, I., Regalado, E., Alférez, G.H. (2026). Evaluating Hyper-V vs. Proxmox: Performance Comparison for Virtualization. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2025, Volume 3. FTC 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07995-4_10