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."I use the solution in my company for the area of VDI, consisting of multiple applications and allowing users the flexibility to use the applications on mobile devices."
"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."
"Great sorting feature to create UI on demand."
"The solution includes good user profiles and policies."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"The solution's most valuable feature is low bandwidth consumption. It helps to improve user experience."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"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 most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Horizon View needs to improve orchestration and integrate additional images. I would also like to see its statistics."
"There is room for improvement in support. The response time could be faster."
"I would like to see more useful monitoring within users and a more useful help desk."
"The solution is quite expensive. They should work to lower the costs if possible."
"The system is not designed to allow the client to log in easily."
"The initial setup is a little complicated."
"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."
"In the area of automation, there are some improvements needed in the solution."
"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."
"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."
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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