We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"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."
"The product works well."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"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."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". 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 Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox and RHEV, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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