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 service dash and Workspace Environment Manager service are good features."
"The ease of access and the confidentiality and security that it provides is what we like best."
"It is stable, easy to scale, and provides secure remote access."
"Citrix Workspace's standout feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Workspace is the virtual desktop that we can use anywhere, at any time, and without taking our laptop."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless application edition with the low-level network bandwidth because we have between 10 and 15 sites in France with a low level of communication needs. We need to deploy our main application, the ERP system, and we needed an efficient solution to provide a solution to the remote sites, with very small links between the data center and the remote site."
"I can access it from anywhere."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The Citrix Workspace interface could improve. Additionally, if they are able to provide a mobile application"
"If there are connectivity issues, there are stability issues."
"It takes time to load."
"They can simplify the process of printers. Printers were quite a difficult issue. It took us a long time to iron this issue out. We have the most simple use case where people connect from home to either a virtual machine or their physical desktop. We tried more complex solutions like Machine Creation Services, and they were more overhead than they were worth for us. I found them difficult to work with and confusing, and they were not worth the work for us."
"The ITSM adapters need to be enhanced."
"There is room for slight improvement in performance optimization and interface refinement."
"The application is now very complex. We started with Citrix on PCs. Now, to access the same application, we need to have a StoreFront Server, the Delivery Controller, and Citrix License Server. It's now very complex."
"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."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"The tool has limited scalability."
Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 26 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4, 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, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Nerdio, 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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