We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon 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."We like that VMware is the top competitor in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is secure remote access to resources."
"It offers great flexibility, allowing us to access it as a complete virtual machine or even just as individual applications."
"The most valuable features of VMware Horizon in our education organization are its Graphics Virtualization Unit (GVU) integration."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon 7 is that it can be accessed anywhere in my internal network. It has a lot of flexibility."
"We use VMware Horizon to provide remote access for remote users."
"Its most valuable feature is the rapid and versatile access from clients operating on various Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems."
"It is easy to scale. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"The performance is good."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"What I would like to see improved is not so much about the product. It's more about how to get information about products. It's always too much sales pitching and fancy works and stuff."
"The support team's technicalities and the pricing of the solution need improvement."
"The primary concern lies with licensing. There’s confusion regarding licensing terms following the new management’s takeover. Consequently, our resellers and distributors are confused."
"I would like to see seamless integration with the cloud because right now, the dependency is on the cloud providers."
"They could incorporate an application library for application learning and licensing."
"Areas for improvement in VMware Horizon 7 would be the logging and the troubleshooting, e.g. they could be made clearer."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if VMware invested in developing a robust reporting engine, providing insights into user activities, locations, and more."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
VMware Horizon is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 34 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. VMware Horizon is rated 8.4, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". VMware Horizon is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, VMware Player and Sangfor aDesk VDI, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion and Citrix Workspace. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Workstation report.
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