We performed a comparison between Parallels Desktop and VMware Horizon View 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."Parallels Desktop integrates seamlessly with macOS. It works better than VMware on Apple operating systems."
"I like how, with Parallels, you can either boot into Mac or Windows to get better control over the resources of the laptops since you're sharing the resources in dual mode."
"The embedded features of the solution are valuable."
"Instant Clone instantly creates another VM with a Delta disk, which is just the VMware backend. This helps with scalability and management."
"VMware Horizon View is easily scalable. Its onboarding is easy and comes with flash provisioning features."
"Great sorting feature to create UI on demand."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The solution has good performance and functionality. However, if the network connection was poor we noticed a decrease in performance."
"We have found the link loans for desktops most valuable."
"The support from VMware is very good and they have amazing experts."
"The biggest challenge is compatibility between VMware and Parallels because the two systems are incompatible. It can be challenging if you are switching between Windows and Mac. I recommend sticking with one product because there isn't good compatibility between the different products."
"There may have been some issues with device drivers on my Mac. Similarly, there are some issues with transferring data from Parallels to the Mac."
"The installation is complex and could be easier. The full installation with testing took a couple of weeks to complete."
"The issue now with VMware is that we don't know the future of the solution. Because if you follow the news, it was acquired by another company, and they are changing the old product line."
"VMware Horizon View needs to improve orchestration and integrate additional images. I would also like to see its statistics."
"The initial setup was complex, and you need system experience to walk through it."
"The initial setup was not difficult but there is room for improvement."
"The storage expansion in the product is a bit difficult to manage, especially when I have to modify a storage requirement of a particular area since it comes across as a complex job."
"We would like to see better performance with the product."
"There is room for improvement in security features."
Parallels Desktop is ranked 10th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews while VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews. Parallels Desktop is rated 7.6, while VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Parallels Desktop writes "A great platform to develop interoperable code on". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". Parallels Desktop is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, NComputing vSpace, NVIDIA GRID and Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops. See our Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Horizon View report.
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