We performed a comparison between Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) and VMware Workstation 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 tool helps me to connect with some apps of our company and resolve the tickets."
"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."
"It has improved delivering applications to remote locations with its lower bandwidth utilization."
"Because of the solution's ubiquity, it is easier to find answers to problems than with competitive products."
"Citrix DaaS’s most valuable feature is the virtualization of applications and desktops."
"The architecture I built had a robust failover mechanism for the endpoints, and the interface was user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it supports team clients."
"First of all, the manageability of the applications for publishing is valuable. Second, it is about being able to run the applications on all main platforms. Third, its licensing is valuable. You can either switch to the cloud and keep on-prem. You can work with this hybrid scenario."
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"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"Technical support is very good."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"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."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"There have been many issues with stability."
"It would help if it were a little simpler. It's a bit complicated and we have hired Citrix administrators. But it's a good solution."
"There are many latency and slowness issues, which are things looked after by Citrix."
"Their customer support can be improved a lot as it lacks a lot of knowledgeable help."
"The visibility the solution provides across SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, for user and application traffic, is also limited if you do not enable all the services and is based on which services you are utilising. Citrix provides end-to-end visibility based on their services you are utilising."
"Scalability depends on the server and the number of users in the organization."
"We would like to be able to provide VDI, a full desktop, to each of our users."
"For us, pricing is the most important feature to improve."
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"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
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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 Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". 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 Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and Proxmox VE. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. VMware Workstation report.
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