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."The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"The technical support is good."
"The product works well."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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, VMware Fusion and Proxmox VE.
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