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OpenVZ vs VMware Workstation comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

OpenVZ
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Server Virtualization Software (18th)
VMware Workstation
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Virtualization solutions, they serve different purposes. OpenVZ is designed for Server Virtualization Software and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
VMware Workstation, on the other hand, focuses on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), holds 9.8% mindshare, down 15.4% since last year.
Server Virtualization Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenVZ1.0%
Hyper-V19.9%
VMware vSphere19.0%
Other60.1%
Server Virtualization Software
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Workstation9.8%
Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service)12.8%
Azure Virtual Desktop7.7%
Other69.7%
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
 

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Director of IT at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Creating and destroying test machines has simplified our operations and reduced manual recovery time
The Snapshot feature has helped with workflows by allowing us to more easily reconstruct something if we lose it or need it. We've been making Snapshots on a consistent basis, mainly of servers. The VX Rail has worked effectively because we can create machines as we need them. It's helpful for resetting and has helped with our operations because I had set up failover servers on Vertex, but we don't have to do that anymore since VMware will just create a new machine immediately if we have a problem. We're doing our domain servers on there, and we've been very happy with that. We appreciate that we can create machines simply to test things out and then destroy them. I use it for a test machine for checking emails, so if the email has a virus in it, we can just destroy the machine and create a new one. We're slowly moving into the VMware environment, although the pricing with Broadcom has been a disaster.
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
12%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise18
 

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Which VMware solution would you go with - Workstation or vSphere?
VM Workstation’s setup is so easy, you can use it almost instantly, it works well with Windows and Linux. We like VM Workstation primarily to test environments to determine how well a solution will...
What needs improvement with VMware Player?
Here's what happened with us regarding the prices for VMware Workstation: we purchased everything through Dell, and as is common, we got busy and didn't get everything activated. By the time we tri...
What is your primary use case for VMware Player?
I have a bunch of VMware servers set up, including our domain servers, our data servers, and some test machines on VMware. We're not really using VMware Workstation as workstations. We've got a cou...
 

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