We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon View 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."The ease of customizing the terminal, including the ability to add or decrease memory."
"The most valuable feature is that VMware Horizon is easy to setup."
"The local hardware pass-throughs are valuable. I like being able to have access to local hardware."
"I appreciate how simple and straightforward the operation of VMware Horizon View is."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the clone variant. We have been using the linked clone for the past five years, but I am willing to support and take on the function of the instant cloud."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"The product is really easy to use."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"The performance is good."
"The installation is complex and could be easier. The full installation with testing took a couple of weeks to complete."
"Lacks sufficiently robust audio redirections."
"The initial setup was not difficult but there is room for improvement."
"Horizon View's pricing is high."
"In the latest versions, the deployment of certificates on the console has been implemented. Although it is functional, it is not working as well as I would like. I hope this feature can be improved in the future."
"The product has to improve its performance and connectivity."
"Technical support could be better and faster."
"VMware Horizon View has worked a lot to improve the solutions. There are some issues in the delivery of the applications, such as network problems. You can lose your connection at times."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Fusion, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and VMware Workspace ONE. See our VMware Horizon View vs. VMware Workstation report.
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