We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon and VMware Horizon View 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 most valuable feature of this solution is secure remote access to resources."
"We are happy with the interface, configurations, pricing and support."
"VMware Horizon 7 has its proprietary Elastic streaming protocol, which is very good for delivering VDI."
"The thin image offers efficiency and stability for the system, which is not always available in other alternatives."
"Horizon 7 is scalable - we can add more machines or servers easily."
"The most valuable feature in this solution which really helped for my use case was the stand out three dimensional acceleration. It was really important for enhancing the performance for certain clients based on their scenarios."
"Its most valuable feature is the rapid and versatile access from clients operating on various Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems."
"It stands as a robust setup with considerable capabilities."
"I like that it updates quickly and allows users to have virtual desktops."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"The solution simplifies our work."
"The ease of customizing the terminal, including the ability to add or decrease memory."
"Horizon View provides virtual desktops on demand."
"VMware is very helpful for customized platforms that offer auto-promotion and auto-deprovision."
"We have found the link loans for desktops most valuable."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"They could incorporate an application library for application learning and licensing."
"I would like to see simple load-balancing for smaller environments that lack large solutions like F5, or NSX; it should be redundant or unavailable but in a simple way. Perhaps limited to only two components; if more are required, a paid load balancing solution can be used. Load balancing for simple environments, or simple redundancy, is sorely lacking."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Areas for improvement in VMware Horizon 7 would be the logging and the troubleshooting, e.g. they could be made clearer."
"In the next release, I would like to have more support when optimizing the master templates for PDI. There are tools that are available to be used but they are not supported at the moment and are more, "use at your own risk.""
"The setup of VMware Horizon 7 is easy. However, we have a lot of experience with VMware Horizon 7."
"My deployment is complex and I hope it will only take a month."
"Horizon 7's performance could be improved."
"VMware support is okay, but sometimes it's a little bit hit or miss trying to get somebody who knows what they're doing and talking about."
"The system is not designed to allow the client to log in easily."
"The initial setup was complex, and you need system experience to walk through it."
"Sometimes we had to force values so the end-user could continue working, which caused some information to get lost."
"The storage expansion in the product is a bit difficult to manage, especially when I have to modify a storage requirement of a particular area since it comes across as a complex job."
"The technical support offered by VMware is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The installation is complex and could be easier. The full installation with testing took a couple of weeks to complete."
"We would like to see better performance with the product."
VMware Horizon is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 34 reviews while VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews. VMware Horizon is rated 8.4, while VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon writes "Compelling solution for virtual desktop infrastructure with advanced technology, straightforward licensing, easy setup, and seamless integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". VMware Horizon is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Player, VMware Horizon Cloud and VMware Workstation, whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Horizon View report.
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