We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon View 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."It is a very scalable solution."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The solution is secure."
"VMware Horizon View is a stable solution."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"I appreciate how simple and straightforward the operation of VMware Horizon View is."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"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."
"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 solution is quite expensive. They should work to lower the costs if possible."
"The initial setup was complex, and you need system experience to walk through it."
"There should be a function where one can connect and work; whenever not required, one can deprovision it."
"The solution isn't quite mature yet. It needs more time to mature and to get more market recognition."
"The product has to improve its performance and connectivity."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The technical support offered by VMware is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I would like to see more useful monitoring within users and a more useful help desk."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
VMware Horizon View is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". 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". VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Workstation, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our VMware Horizon View vs. VMware Player report.
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