"The ease of deployment is one of the most valuable features. If I want to install something, I can have a test phase to see what sort of impact it will have and whether it will affect production. So I can install it on my lab, make sure it is okay, and if it is, I can deploy it directly to the users or to the staff."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon 7 is its ease of use."
"VMware is a hyper-converged infrastructure model. Therefore, for scaling it you just add more servers to it in the inputs. It's rather straightforward."
"It is a stable solution. It is wonderful for multi-user environments, and it supports different virtual machines and operating systems. You can go for any kind of virtual machine. It has many features, especially for a call center. You don't have the issue of computers going down from time to time. You just need to copy the virtual machine to deploy it. You also don't need many people to maintain computers. With Horizon 7, you just need one or two people."
"Scalable and stable virtualization solution, with good technical support offering timely responses."
"Horizon 7 is scalable - we can add more machines or servers easily."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon 7 is that it can be accessed anywhere in my internal network. It has a lot of flexibility."
"VMware Horizon 7 has its proprietary Elastic streaming protocol, which is very good for delivering VDI."
"The solution has proven to be very stable."
"The solution is good for providing dedicated resources for dedicated users."
"I would love to see so they can actually allow the use of Linux, from a hosting environment as well as from a VDI client environment."
"The initial setup may be a little difficult for those with no experience."
"The remote application features have some room for improvement."
"The remote connection, bandwidth usage, and error connection can be improved. Working with the load balancer sites should also be improved. For example, with Horizon, we can use two clients with a one megabit connection, but with Citrix, we can use four or five clients with the same bandwidth through ICA protocol. VMware must improve remote connection, connection stability, and load balancing."
"I would like to see seamless integration with the cloud because right now, the dependency is on the cloud providers."
"It is a little bit complex. You need a little bit of experience with ESXi installation and VMware before using this solution. You cannot directly jump to this solution. It also requires training. After you get trained, you can do anything with Horizon 7. In terms of features, it has been sufficient for my needs, but it can always have more features. They can maybe merge the servers. They can give the Horizon 7 server in one package with ESXi."
"The most important feature that is missing is the ability to do some remote support on the client itself. For example, if somebody has a Horizon client installed on his machine, there should be a way to support his local machine as well. That's because most of the problems can't be solved very often due to the computer or the setup that someone is using on his personal machine. Because a Horizon client is already installed on the machine to access the environment, it would be nice if the client itself possessed some sort of remote control tool in it so that if needed, we could support both the virtual setup and the actual setup of the machine. It pretty much does everything well. It is mostly the support aspect that can be improved. You have perfect control over your in-house environment. You have a solution that can pretty much be used anywhere, but you have no control over the machine that's being used to access your environment. Definitely, that's where most of the features are lacking. There should be an option for remote control and maybe some options for conformity."
"VMware Horizon 7 could improve by supporting the active-active data center. At this time we are only deploying it in the production environment. Our customer is considered to deploy the VMware Horizon 7 to a secondary data center, but we found out that it cannot fully support the user in the deployment in the active-active data center. Any improvement on this would be beneficial."
"It's a costly product. It would help if they could offer it at a discount."
"We have experienced some connectivity issues."
VMware Horizon is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 17 reviews while VMware Horizon Air is ranked 12th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews. VMware Horizon is rated 8.4, while VMware Horizon Air is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon writes "Makes it simpler and faster to deploy new versions and updates and enables us to provide support with the remote control feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon Air writes "Easy deployment with good performance and can scale well". VMware Horizon is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Horizon View, VMware Horizon Cloud and VMware Fusion, whereas VMware Horizon Air is most compared with Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), VMware Horizon View, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Workspace ONE. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Horizon Air report.
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