We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon Air and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The solution has proven to be very stable."
"The solution is good for providing dedicated resources for dedicated users."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"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."
"We have experienced some connectivity issues."
"It's a costly product. It would help if they could offer it at a discount."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
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VMware Horizon Air is ranked 27th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. VMware Horizon Air is rated 8.6, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon Air writes "VMware Horizon Air vs. Citrix Workspace Cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". VMware Horizon Air is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon View, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop.
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