We performed a comparison between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops vs VMware Horizon View based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops seems to be the more favorable solution. It is easier to deploy than VMware Horizon View, and users are happier with the technical support.
"The tool helps me to connect with some apps of our company and resolve the tickets."
"Stable product with straightforward setup."
"For the most part, overall stability is what you would expect."
"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."
"The product is simple to set up, and its deep integration with Microsoft is also a valuable feature."
"We've been able to scale the environment quite nicely by using the Citrix Remote PC. I can't say enough about that. And because that relies on utilizing your existing hardware resources, and making those available as a part of your Citrix farm — with a second level of authentication and security pieces around it — we added some 4,000 workstations without an additional overhead or cost."
"It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Because of the solution's ubiquity, it is easier to find answers to problems than with competitive products."
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"The solution is very user friendly."
"Instant Clone instantly creates another VM with a Delta disk, which is just the VMware backend. This helps with scalability and management."
"The most valuable features are Instant Clones and AppStacks."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface."
"Horizon View's best features are that it gives you more control over the PCs on your infrastructure, and it's specialized for banking environments."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"I have to re-enter my user password when I am not using the tool for some time around ten minutes. I want to also improve the need to download other Citrix apps."
"Pricing and technical support needs improvement."
"We encounter compatibility issues related to hardware, scanners, and other devices."
"Where improvement could be driven is in terms of clarity as to the functionality of some of the solutions. If you go back to the older Citrix Xen products that we had, we understood those really well. As we've come into the new workstation premium suite, there is a lot of additional functionality that we perhaps have not yet fully exploited. It is not because we can't, but simply because we don't yet understand the depth of functionality that's offered."
"Our experience of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is good, but the environment can become complex and difficult to manage at times."
"The monitoring and management is in need of improvement."
"The product advances really fast. For some customers, we need better backwards compatibility."
"The initial setup has room for improvement."
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"Horizon View's pricing is high."
"The system integration also needs some improvement."
"I would like to see more useful monitoring within users and a more useful help desk."
"The integration could be improved."
"We would like to see better performance with the product."
"VMware Horizon View can improve by making it easier to use for first-time users. You should learn the whole concept of VMware to be able to use it."
"The solution is very expensive."
"In the area of automation, there are some improvements needed in the solution."
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 5th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 90 reviews while VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) writes "Flexible Deployment, reliable performance, and fast transmission speeds". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with Amazon Appstream, Citrix Workspace, Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Apache Guacamole, whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. VMware Horizon View report.
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I think VMware Horizon View is a very solid product.
I think it is the most mature product on the whole spectrum. All virtual desktop environments require tuning for performance. Depending on the size of the company you don't need 1/10 of the bells & whistles that the vendors include. For example, I have a small environment - 70 employees. I don't use instant clones, personas, their analysis tools, ... Not only are they expensive (the tools) they overly complicate a complicated process. KISS.
I have honed down the environment to what is just needed. Most of the industry will tell you otherwise. And I do all this as a one-man IT department.