We performed a comparison between Citrix Workspace 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."The ease of access and the confidentiality and security that it provides is what we like best."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"From my perspective, the most valuable feature is the manageability."
"The price and user interface are great."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity. The remote connection is the reason we are using this solution."
"Troubleshooting Citrix is pretty straightforward."
"Ability to connect remotely."
"Its user-friendliness is most valuable. It was easy to log in and navigate. Some of such solutions are not very user-friendly, but this one was."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The product is currently not working well in hosting conferencing software like Zoom, Team, and Salon."
"Citrix duplicates multiple processes."
"We had an issue when we were using the Citrix server. We needed to install the Citrix Runtime in the server where the application was hosted."
"It is slow. When everybody is logged in, it does have a tendency to slow down. You can tell the connectivity slows down a little bit, but it's still a good product."
"The product has some bugs, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"When there are technical issues, sometimes we can't get on the cloud."
"Performance could be better if there was a low latency improvement."
"This solution is resource-intensive, it takes a lot of Bandwidth and a lot of the resources of the server."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"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."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"Its networking features need improvement."
Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 25 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.6, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". 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". Citrix Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View and OpenText Exceed TurboX, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon and Parallels Desktop. See our Citrix Workspace vs. VMware Player report.
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