We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon View 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."I like that it updates quickly and allows users to have virtual desktops."
"It is a stable product."
"It's centralized management, and you have access gateway to enter the the VMs from outside."
"The embedded features of the solution are valuable."
"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."
"The solution is secure."
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"The solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The initial setup is a little complicated."
"The system integration also needs some improvement."
"We would like to see better performance with the product."
"In the area of automation, there are some improvements needed in the solution."
"Deployment and configuration could be simplified."
"The solution’s stability and initial setup could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in security features."
"In the next release, the performance, the speed, and the price need to be improved."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"The tool has limited scalability."
VMware Horizon View is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". 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 View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Workstation, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our VMware Horizon View vs. VMware Player report.
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