We performed a comparison between VMware Player and VMware Workspace ONE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Workspace ONE has been stable so far."
"The feature that we find most valuable is the corporate email pushing."
"People who want to adopt this solution may be thinking about it from the end-user's perspective, but this solution is also very friendly for the people who manage it. It's administration-friendly."
"The platform provides a stable environment for operations and quickly creates new environments. Additionally, it offers efficient flexibility."
"I would rate the stability as eight out of ten."
"The solution's Self-Service feature is valuable because it gives a single managed application that users can download and use based on their preferences and productivity."
"VMware Workspace ONE is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the security policies."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"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."
"There are some bugs that our team needs to work around. It required some API integration required because visitor integration was not there. For example, we are currently working on a tunnel issue, and VMware doesn't have this solution."
"The initial setup should be simplified."
"AirWatch doesn't seem to empower IT admins to try new things or get creative with implementations."
"I would like to see more service notifications."
"There are other solutions that might be better for certain use cases. This is not an all-purpose solution."
"The Content Locker cannot inherit permissions for the Windows Public Folder. If they could integrate with Microsoft on this point, it would be the perfect functionality."
"The setup was very difficult. It was not as easy as I had expected."
"The technical support could be improved."
VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 2nd in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 82 reviews. VMware Player is rated 8.6, while VMware Workspace ONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of VMware Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workspace ONE writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and offers single sign-on". VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl and ManageEngine Endpoint Central.
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