We performed a comparison between Parallels Desktop and VMware Workstation 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."I like how, with Parallels, you can either boot into Mac or Windows to get better control over the resources of the laptops since you're sharing the resources in dual mode."
"Parallels Desktop integrates seamlessly with macOS. It works better than VMware on Apple operating systems."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"The technical support is good."
"VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"There may have been some issues with device drivers on my Mac. Similarly, there are some issues with transferring data from Parallels to the Mac."
"The biggest challenge is compatibility between VMware and Parallels because the two systems are incompatible. It can be challenging if you are switching between Windows and Mac. I recommend sticking with one product because there isn't good compatibility between the different products."
"It would be better if software updates occur automatically."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
Parallels Desktop is ranked 9th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Parallels Desktop is rated 7.6, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Parallels Desktop writes "A great platform to develop interoperable code on". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Parallels Desktop is most compared with VMware Fusion, NComputing vSpace, NVIDIA GRID, VMware Horizon View and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and Oracle VM. See our Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Workstation report.
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