We performed a comparison between Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) 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."For the most part, overall stability is what you would expect."
"My focus has primarily been on publishing virtual applications."
"The scalability is fine. We have about 400 users, who are supported by six staff members. We use the product company-wide throughout 40 different locations, and we currently do not have plans to increase the scale of use."
"The most valuable feature is how secure the solution is."
"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."
"Because of the solution's ubiquity, it is easier to find answers to problems than with competitive products."
"The product is simple to set up, and its deep integration with Microsoft is also a valuable feature."
"The shadow feature is extraordinary and helps a lot when supporting remote users."
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"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The only thing we have found to be detrimental is when we have tried to find training. I realize that we're looking at it at the worst time possible, with a pandemic going on, but it seems that most of the training offered is learn-by-yourself online."
"Pricing can be lower and roaming profiles need to be fixed to work consistently."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Using the app layering feature can be quite difficult and cumbersome."
"The initial setup is complex."
"If anything could be improved, it might be some of the Director functionality, and some of the dashboard customization, or the overall Director customization."
"The cost of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is high and has room for improvement."
"If Citrix can develop something which can have more reach towards the backend infrastructure, other components of the Citrix environment, that would be ideal."
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"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 5th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 92 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. 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 Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with Amazon Appstream, VMware Horizon View, Citrix Workspace, Amazon WorkSpaces and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. VMware Player report.
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