We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon Air and VMware Workstation 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."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The technical support is good."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"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."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"We have experienced some connectivity issues."
"It's a costly product. It would help if they could offer it at a discount."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
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VMware Horizon Air is ranked 27th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. VMware Horizon Air is rated 8.6, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon Air writes "VMware Horizon Air vs. Citrix Workspace Cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". VMware Horizon Air is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon View, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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