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VMware Fusion Pro Room for Improvement

Bruce Lundberg - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux HPC Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The only issue I've experienced with VMware Fusion Pro is that it doesn't register correctly with the main macOS system, causing repeated notifications about background installations. This is a minor inconvenience.

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Christian Kyony - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Engineer at DRS

VMware Fusion is good, especially for the graphical user interface. However, it would be beneficial to have a more developed command line interface to deploy solutions. This would allow scripting for launching specific Virtual Machines. Additionally, enhancing the API interactions could improve the ability to manage VS and deploy various kinds of guests.

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Chief Technology Officer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Fusion is not meant to be scalable as it runs on desktops and laptops. For scalability, ESXi is the right solution.

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Amit Negi - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Officer at Loesche GmbH

The solution is quite heavy in terms of resources like RAM and CPU. They should minimize the number of resources. Also, the installation process could be simpler for end users to understand. 

They should make it compatible with Windows and Linux. Presently, it works well only with Mac systems. In addition, they should enhance essential security features.

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IhorPetruk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of System Software Division at Bunch Craft Group

VMware Fusion's licensing cost needs improvement.

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reviewer1738311 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Student at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would like to see newer and updated cloud functions.

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reviewer1330542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The way they handle snapshotting can be improved. One time, I moved a machine from one to another, and I tried to pull it up on the second machine, but it didn't work. This was because I had not cleaned up the snapshot before I deleted it and moved it across. So, when I tried to pull it up, it wouldn't let me bring it up. 

The backups for the VMs themselves can also be improved. I pretty much have to rely on Windows backups and not something on VMware. That's where it needs improvement.

I am able to upload from my Fusion into the ESXi easily. I'm able to spin something up on Fusion and push it into the big arena, but the reverse is not as easy, that is, trying to pull something down from that. I would love to have a functionality where I could pull something from the VMware infrastructure into Fusion, but I'm not sure if I can take something from ESXi and pull it into Fusion. 

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Roshan Dias - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Informatics (Private) Limited

The solution could be a little more stable.

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