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 simple to use."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"The performance is good."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"Technical support is very good."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The interface has to be updated."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"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."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"The product’s virtual machine data backup feature needs upgrading."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". 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, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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