We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon 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 most valuable features of VMware Horizon in our education organization are its Graphics Virtualization Unit (GVU) integration."
"We are happy with the interface, configurations, pricing and support."
"I like VMware Horizon's ability and performance."
"From my standpoint, the desktop is the most valuable feature."
"We use VMware Horizon to digitalize environments."
"Scalable and stable virtualization solution, with good technical support offering timely responses."
"It is easy to scale. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are the ability to manage a great number of desktops at once and the remote access for users who are working from outside of the office or from a different office in the country."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"I would like to see seamless integration with the cloud because right now, the dependency is on the cloud providers."
"The setup of VMware Horizon 7 is easy. However, we have a lot of experience with VMware Horizon 7."
"The majority of things in VMware Horizon can be done only in Windows and not in Linux. There are Linux customers who would like to use VMware Horizon's features."
"I would like to see the VDP or other features for backing up the VMs."
"I would love to see so they can actually allow the use of Linux, from a hosting environment as well as from a VDI client environment."
"The multimedia playback is not very good and they could improve it by increasing the quality."
"I would highlight the challenges related to integrating with Microsoft Azure services. Specifically, there are issues with MDM-managed devices and the necessity for MDM-managed compliant devices. In the non-persistent horizon model, there's a delay before each new desktop becomes compliant. Users can access these desktops before fully onboard into the MDM solution."
"Areas for improvement in VMware Horizon 7 would be the logging and the troubleshooting, e.g. they could be made clearer."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
VMware Horizon is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 34 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. VMware Horizon is rated 8.4, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. 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 Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". VMware Horizon is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, VMware Horizon Cloud and VMware Workstation, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Player report.
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