We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like VMware Horizon's ability and performance."
"The solution has enabled us to offer a secure desktop experience to our remote users. This ensures that our personally identifiable information and HIPAA data remain protected, eliminating the risk of being copied to a local, potentially mobile, device. Everything is contained within a centralized structure."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Horizon 7 is its ease of use."
"It is stable and easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature in this solution which really helped for my use case was the stand out three dimensional acceleration. It was really important for enhancing the performance for certain clients based on their scenarios."
"It stands as a robust setup with considerable capabilities."
"The benefits of this solution are that it is modern and it works perfectly well with the rest of the VMware environments we have. Having this vertical integration is what matters to us as an organization and this solution excels in this area. You deploy it and it works without much hassle."
"Its most valuable feature is the rapid and versatile access from clients operating on various Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The features are good."
"The simplicity of the deployment and the implementation, and the footprint for the hardware are some of the solution's valuable features."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"The performance is good."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"I would like to see seamless integration with the cloud because right now, the dependency is on the cloud providers."
"It would be beneficial if VMware invested in developing a robust reporting engine, providing insights into user activities, locations, and more."
"I would like to see simple load-balancing for smaller environments that lack large solutions like F5, or NSX; it should be redundant or unavailable but in a simple way. Perhaps limited to only two components; if more are required, a paid load balancing solution can be used. Load balancing for simple environments, or simple redundancy, is sorely lacking."
"The solution has a lot of issues and bugs."
"The product fails to support Mac or Apple workstations."
"VMware Horizon's initial setup is fairly complex."
"The setup of VMware Horizon 7 is easy. However, we have a lot of experience with VMware Horizon 7."
"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 dashboard can be improved."
"The support can be improved."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The price should be reduced."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
VMware Horizon is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 33 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. VMware Horizon is rated 8.6, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon writes "Compelling solution for virtual desktop infrastructure with advanced technology, straightforward licensing, easy setup, and seamless integration". 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 is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, VMware Player and OpenText Exceed TurboX, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and Citrix Workspace. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Workstation report.
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