[halo37253]

As Someone that runs Proxmox and ESXI.

That is hardly true.

The ESXI UI is vastly cleaner and more VM Focused. The network stack is easier to work with, and setting up passthrough is dead easy. A big plus to ESXI is how easy it is to export a VM and move it to another machine. The Export/Import method on Proxmox sucks, and all CLI. Plus there are a lot of premade VMware images out there that spool up in minuets on ESXI, getting them up and running on proxmox is a chore.

Proxmox is not bad if doing everything from scratch in Proxmox, and you don't need to move VMs arount.

Plus don't get me started on lack of a filebrowser on proxmox.

Performance is better with ESXI anyways. Only downside to ESXI is hardware limitations.