We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"The solution's customer service is 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 product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The technical support is good."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"It would be better if software updates occur automatically."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
"The solution can be expensive."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and RHEV, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE.
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