We performed a comparison between Citrix Workspace and VMware Horizon 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."It is a stable solution."
"The ease of access and the confidentiality and security that it provides is what we like best."
"Citrix Workspace can present desktop applications with ease, in an efficient and secure manner. The performance is good, it is a great piece of software."
"Ability to connect remotely."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Workspace is the virtual desktop that we can use anywhere, at any time, and without taking our laptop."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Workspace is its security."
"From my perspective, the most valuable feature is the manageability."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity. The remote connection is the reason we are using this solution."
"One of the most interesting features in the enterprise version is the ability to do some support. There is a feature for remote control and debugging, which is something we didn't have before having Horizon 7 and the enterprise version."
"We use VMware Horizon to provide remote access for remote users."
"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."
"We like that VMware is the top competitor in virtualization."
"I like VMware Horizon's ability and performance."
"It is stable and easily scalable."
"It stands as a robust setup with considerable capabilities."
"We use VMware Horizon to digitalize environments."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"The lag when using Skype or Screen Sharing with multiple users needs to improve, as it makes it difficult for us to continue when we have to restart the system."
"The application is now very complex. We started with Citrix on PCs. Now, to access the same application, we need to have a StoreFront Server, the Delivery Controller, and Citrix License Server. It's now very complex."
"The product is currently not working well in hosting conferencing software like Zoom, Team, and Salon."
"Citrix duplicates multiple processes."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved."
"Some customers find the price to be a significant factor. They have a hard time understanding the extra cost of the services"
"The Citrix Workspace interface could improve. Additionally, if they are able to provide a mobile application"
"VMware Horizon needs to integrate with Azure, Teams, and Zoom."
"The most important feature that is missing is the ability to do some remote support on the client itself. For example, if somebody has a Horizon client installed on his machine, there should be a way to support his local machine as well. That's because most of the problems can't be solved very often due to the computer or the setup that someone is using on his personal machine. Because a Horizon client is already installed on the machine to access the environment, it would be nice if the client itself possessed some sort of remote control tool in it so that if needed, we could support both the virtual setup and the actual setup of the machine. It pretty much does everything well. It is mostly the support aspect that can be improved. You have perfect control over your in-house environment. You have a solution that can pretty much be used anywhere, but you have no control over the machine that's being used to access your environment. Definitely, that's where most of the features are lacking. There should be an option for remote control and maybe some options for conformity."
"We have seen and face notable challenges in the configuration aspect specifically while creating and assigning groups which have proven to be a very cumbersome and tiring process. Apart from this the Reliance on the Active Directory as the only directory has its own limitation, which include the requirement to purchase a windows server for an environment outside the standard set up."
"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."
"VMware Horizon 7 could improve by supporting the active-active data center. At this time we are only deploying it in the production environment. Our customer is considered to deploy the VMware Horizon 7 to a secondary data center, but we found out that it cannot fully support the user in the deployment in the active-active data center. Any improvement on this would be beneficial."
"The product fails to support Mac or Apple workstations."
"The remote application features have some room for improvement."
"I would like to see the VDP or other features for backing up the VMs."
Citrix Workspace is ranked 7th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 26 reviews while VMware Horizon is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 34 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4, while VMware Horizon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon writes "Compelling solution for virtual desktop infrastructure with advanced technology, straightforward licensing, easy setup, and seamless integration". Citrix Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View and OpenText Exceed TurboX, whereas VMware Horizon is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, VMware Player and Dizzion. See our Citrix Workspace vs. VMware Horizon report.
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