VMware Horizon View Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of this solution is the clone variant. We have been using the linked clone for the past five years, but I am willing to support and take on the function of the instant cloud.
The clone variant enhances the solution's functionality, making it more beneficial.
View full review »It is easy to navigate through the product. The product makes it easier for us to manage the user’s expectations. The solution is seamless and easy to use. We can choose to use either the web or the client. We can integrate the solution with other tools using Active Directory.
View full review »Compared to Citrix, which is one of VMware's main competitors, VMware Horizon View is easy to manage on top of the VPN connections and, owing to the integration it allows with the VPN part, makes up for some of its main features. With VMware Horizon View, the configuration, deployment, manageability, VMware vRealize Operations Manager, and everything else is much better in my experience.
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VMware Horizon View
March 2024
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I like that it updates quickly and allows users to have virtual desktops.
View full review »The App Volumes feature is valuable for application automation. We can use what we want inside the solution. VMware has its own troubleshooting tool. We can also use VMware Aria. We can use a lot of applications.
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Vijayakumar Tharmalingam
Lead Converged Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware's most helpful feature is its ability to work like a centralized management system. When I say centralized management, it includes everything from vulnerability to application management, and much more. Regarding an R&D environment, we can quickly roll out VDI on their customized operating system. VMware is beneficial for customized platforms that offer auto-promotion and auto-deprovision.
We have found the link loans for desktops most valuable.
View full review »VMware Horizon View is easy to configure and deploy.
View full review »It's centralized and secure, making it great for business.
View full review »This product works quickly and is reliable. You feel like you're working on your own desktop and not on a remote desktop.
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Laith Aljawamis
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I appreciate how simple and straightforward the operation of VMware Horizon View is. It is very user-friendly and can be used on any device, anywhere, and anytime.
The solution is quite stable. The performance is good.
The scalability has been very good. It's easy to expand it to more endpoints.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
View full review »The product’s scalability makes the deployment easy. It is important to us. The product handles security and compliance in the virtual infrastructure well.
View full review »It's centralized management, and you have access gateway to enter the VMs from outside.
View full review »VMware Horizon View is easily scalable. Its onboarding is easy and comes with flash provisioning features.
View full review »VMware Horizon View offers something called a security gateway, which allows users to get access to VDI without a VPN. The user experience provided by VMware Blast Extreme is also good. The USB redirection from the client to VDI is another good feature of VMware Horizon View.
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DHACHANNAACHAISIN
Managing Director at WISE VARY
I find the virtual desktop and its spacious capacity to be the most valuable aspect of VMware Horizon View in my experience.
View full review »The solution's most valuable features are its ease of deployment and ease of distribution of the desktops and the applications. It is quite an easy product since the end user does not have to go through much of a learning curve.
The solution's most valuable feature is low bandwidth consumption. It helps to improve user experience.
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AmerTouma
Manager, IT at The School of Research Science
We have found this solution valuable because it has cut our costs for purchasing new hardware.
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reviewer1665633
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Instant Clone instantly creates another VM with a Delta disk, which is just the VMware backend. This helps with scalability and management.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that VMware Horizon is easy to setup.
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HarshaWijesinghe
Research Engineer
The solution includes good user profiles and policies.
The solution integrates well with other VMware products.
Productivity is improved with use of the solution.
View full review »The administrative console – it allows us to do a lot from the back-end where we don’t have to impact the users at all.
View full review »The major advantage of this solution is that users can log in from anywhere and from a variety of devices. Previously, it was difficult for us to manage but when we moved to VDI and people were able to log in from anywhere, it made a huge difference. I like that we're able to take a snapshot of the desktop.
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Dan Reynolds
Director of IT at BLDD ARCHITECTS INC
The ability to reliably virtualize desktops and support them. Simple to say, but complicated nonetheless.
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DanielBass
Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Horizon View provides virtual desktops on demand.
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DavidGrudek
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This product is great for desktop management, particularly when it comes to all the upgrades. It enables you to update one golden image, save it and basically deploy it. Any user logging in will get that new DDI and you've only had to upgrade one machine. The other advantage is that because you're pushing out this image, it's a clone of the original so everybody has the same experience. That's not always the case when people use different laptops, adjusting and tweaking them. It makes management a lot easier. There's also the huge savings we've had with the pandemic because everybody had to work from home. Even if there weren't enough laptops to go around, almost everybody has a home computer. It was just a matter of installing Horizon on your home computer and connecting to the office using two factor authentication. They made it really simple.
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reviewer1423488
Technical Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features are Instant Clones and AppStacks.
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Tonatiuh Torres Zamorano
Solutions Manager at ICSI
The most valuable features of VMware Horizon View technology is easier to use and is user-friendly with the customers.
VMware has spent a lot of money to improve its solutions.
View full review »The app virtualizing is a great feature. The system developers use it to deliver apps to targeted staff. It basically reduces the server infrastructure resource. The solution provides good functionality.
View full review »VMware Horizon View is an easy-to-use solution. VMware Horizon View allows us to access and manage any type of client.
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Helberth Bayona
ENGINEER IT at SYAC
The solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface. We really enjoy using the remote desktop.
The solution can scale.
The product has been quite stable so far. The performance is very good.
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AmerTouma
Manager, IT at The School of Research Science
The most valuable feature is the graphics facilities.
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Payman Maher
Storage Specialist at Informatics Services Corporation
Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it. Also, there is no operating system on the user-side hardware.
There is no worry that it will crash and you will be able to recover it in seconds.
Using this solution in medium to large organizations can be justified. Since virtualization is widespread in many organizations today, launching this solution may not require much infrastructure change.
Offices that do not require much processing are a good place to use this solution.
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Tonatiuh Torres Zamorano
Solutions Manager at ICSI
Personally, I prefer Citrix, because you can do a lot of things with Citrix. Still, VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization. They are both great solutions.
View full review »The ability to log in from anywhere is huge. Remote access is a third party product, but with them working together, it's is great.
View full review »Being able to centrally manage our environments from one pane of glass.
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reviewer2096580
Senior Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications.
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Carlos-Maldonado
Director comercial at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
The best thing about this product was the ease of customizing the terminal, including the ability to add or decrease memory.
View full review »Features like LinkedClone, Desktop Pool with many delivery options and one single pane of glass to rule all desktop environments can simplify VDI management and reduce infrastructure costs.
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Abd Allah Jawish
System engineer at DCA
Horizon View's best features are that it gives you more control over the PCs on your infrastructure, and it's specialized for banking environments.
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reviewer1473789
Senior Application Developer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The local hardware pass-throughs are valuable. I like being able to have access to local hardware.
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Michal Sadlik
Systems Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
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reviewer1680246
Chief Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution has good performance and functionality. However, if the network connection was poor we noticed a decrease in performance.
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- Consolidated way of doing updates
- Security
The ability to spin up desktops as quickly as possible. You just build one image and then set multiple images and be ready quickly.
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• Central Management
• VMware vShield Endpoint
• PCOIP (PC Over IP) Protocol
• Linked Clones & ThinApps
• Local Mode
• VMware Knowledge
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reviewer1413429
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
What I liked was the sorting feature to create the UI on demand. We sorted complaints from a vendor image of the virtual machine.
- Horizon-linked clone desktops
- App Volumes
- UEM
It’s easy to maintain with the recompose feature. It makes my job easier, as I can update and break the computers, and then rebuild them immediately.
View full review »The most valuable feature is virtual machine provisioning.
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reviewer1381467
VMware Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very user friendly.
The solution is very fast and easy to configure.
The solution offers good documentation.
Our customers maintain that they don't face any issues when using the solution and find it very reliable.
The product can really cater to specific customer environments.
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reviewer1696335
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is secure.
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reviewer1196850
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The embedded features of the solution are valuable.
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View not only makes desktop management, storage, and provisioning easier, but also reduces the cost of management as well as automation of routine and storage duties performed by administrators.View easily allows for recovery of desktop systems in case of a disaster and enables end users to print universally using thin print, connect over the internet, and even create virtual desktop systems dynamically for them.
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reviewer1302189
IT Systems and Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The most valuable features are that it is easy to use and easy to manage.
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VMware Horizon View
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware Horizon View. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.