We performed a comparison between Citrix Workspace and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Citrix Workspace allows you to work in a remote environment and gives you data security."
"It is a good product. I don't have any complaints."
"The price and user interface are great."
"The ease of access and the confidentiality and security that it provides is what we like best."
"I can access it from anywhere."
"Troubleshooting Citrix is pretty straightforward."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"The product has some bugs, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I have noticed that the current compatibility issue with the latest version of Windows 11 is a concern for me and my client. While the client has support for Windows 11, it appears that the Citrix Workspace is only compatible with Windows 10, which does not support the newest version. This is an area that I believe could be improved upon."
"The Citrix Workspace interface could improve. Additionally, if they are able to provide a mobile application"
"Integration with other vendors could be improved."
"The product is currently not working well in hosting conferencing software like Zoom, Team, and Salon."
"Performance could be better if there was a low latency improvement."
"Citrix Workspace can improve by being more secure, but this would apply to any solution not only Citrix Workspace."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
Citrix Workspace is ranked 7th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 26 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". Citrix Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Nerdio, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon and Parallels Desktop. See our Citrix Workspace vs. VMware Player report.
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