We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can publish applications to different groups of users, by integrating with Windows Active Directory."
"Allows us to publish applications accessible by current-generation HTML5 browser or OS-specific client (Windows, Android, iOS), and it supports popular single sign-on and multi-factor authentication protocols."
"It has allowed us to centralize the software location so we don't have to update the software client on 70 computers."
"Its price and ease of use are the most valuable. It is simple and has good performance."
"We can publish apps and desktops on Terminal Servers and seamlessly share printers. We also combine Parallels with Deepnet Security to get two-factor authentication."
"It permits us to control the applications that our users are able to get to, in a seamless manner. We're able to distribute applications to users' desktops, just like those applications are on each user's computer, but they're not."
"Thin client management (Windows 10 client) provides an easy way to lock down client connection to the remote infrastructure. Policies are very helpful for preconfiguring client behavior. Finally, client management is easy."
"You have the opportunity to virtualize applications in different locations. Everything is in one pane or one window, which is quite good."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"The performance is good."
"Technical support is very good."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"It's stable."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"If the solution crashes, then all the customers connected through that agent, lose their session."
"We would like to be able to re-label the OTP (One Time Password) popup so our users can easily recognize that they are to put in their DUO code on that line. Most users see OTP and ask what that is."
"Sometimes you need to understand how to use load balancing and the gateway in order to scale, which means the team may need some additional technical knowledge."
"Improvement is needed in performance monitoring of the client's endpoint, and automatic re-connection of the client in the event of circuit disruptions (this works well generally but can present challenges)."
"The product does not utilize SQL for reporting purposes. Also, it does not support some hypervisors similar to Citrix. These particular areas need improvement."
"Since I've been here less than a year, I have had to upgrade the system three times. The first time was the major upgrade but they have upgraded twice since, and I think that's too many times in that time span."
"Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The customization of the web interface could possibly use some improvement. Little things, like being able to place a background image instead of just choosing from a palette of colors, would be nice."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
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