VMware Workstation Reviews

The solution is used to set up virtual machines.

The product works well.

I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server. I would love to see the support in the lower versions.

I have been using the solution for four or five years.

The stability is fine.

We have about five users.

The initial installation is easy.

The product is expensive.

If we cannot afford the solution, we can use VMware Player or VirtualBox.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

VMware Workstation is a desktop product I use for personal testing on my laptop. If I want to spin up a virtual machine on my laptop, I use VMware Workstation.

VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine.

For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved.

I have been using VMware Workstation for ten years.

VMware Workstation is a stable solution.

Around 30 to 40 engineers use VMware Workstation in our organization.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward and can be done by the users. You run the setup profile, and it will guide you through the installation.

VMware Workstation helps engineers and developers test their applications on their laptops.

VMware Workstation is an expensive solution in Asian countries. Users have to pay a licensing fee for VMware Workstation.

I would recommend VMware Workstation to other users.

Overall, I rate VMware Workstation an eight out of ten.

We use VMware Workstation for mostly legacy operating systems.

VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine.

VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved.

I have been using VMware Workstation for 15 years.

I rate VMware Workstation ten out of ten for stability.

I rate VMware Workstation a five out of ten for scalability.

VMware Workstation's initial setup is easy.

VMware Workstation can be deployed in less than half an hour. We implemented the solution through an in-house team.

I would recommend VMware Workstation to other users.

Overall, I rate VMware Workstation a nine out of ten.

I use the solution as a virtual desktop infrastructure.

The solution has the best licensing modules.

The solution's networking features need enhancement.

I have been using the solution for one year.

The solution's technical support is good.

Positive

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

VMware Workstation is used by almost everyone who is trying to test something on their laptop.

I'm using it for my personal use, for testing. If I want to know how things are working, then I will test it using Workstation.

The features are good. 

There's not much to deploying a VM, or virtual machine. It's all pretty easy.

They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation. This is a free version they are providing. However, it could be more robust. Therefore, if they could bring in things from the enterprise versions to the Workstation, that would be very helpful.

I've been using the solution for at least five or six years now. 

We are using a free version of the solution. 

I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm on at the moment. It's likely the latest. I'm at around version 14.

I'd rate the product seven out of ten. I've been pretty happy with its capabilities overall. That said, it could be more robust and offer more features. 

My company used to manufacture equipment that worked in conjunction with Citrix, VMware, or anything else that had either a cloud-based solution or a thin client or a thin client operating system requirement.

Our clients already were already a VMware Workstation, Citrix, Parallels, or a Microsoft customer, and we were only presenting them with the technology to physically connect to that solution. We provided a way in which they could present a connection to the target operating system or application. We were the OS that sat on the actual physical customer's desktop, and then they would connect to, for example, Citrix, VMware, or Microsoft.

Instead of having a whole full-blown copy of Microsoft Windows on a desktop to access another copy of Microsoft Windows, that's in the cloud, we are were presenting them with an alternative method to get to the virtual desktop or virtual application. We provided an endpoint computer solutions space. We didn't influence what the customers' endpoint was connecting to, we would facilitate the connection only.

The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated. 

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.

We have used Citrix and they are very good because they keep both in step with one another. When they release a new endpoint client, very close to the same between the Microsoft Windows OS 10, Apple iOS, and Android.  VMware Workstation tends to leave Windows first for its client OS and sometimes doesn't catch up with the other OS's. A good example is the offloading of Teams. Teams works on Microsoft Windows, but there's no Linux client. 

I have been using VMware Workstation for approximately six years.

VMware Workstation is highly reliable and stable.

I have used Citrix previously. I would rate VMware Workstation and Citrix the same. They have small differences and they both have areas to improve.

VMware Workstation's initial setup is straightforward. It's not a difficult solution to implement. It's incredibly similar to Citrix. It's quite easy because most sites that employ Horizon or VMware Workstation have already a VMware implementation, it's not extensive in that respect. However, what is difficult for all clients, it's how to make it work reliably, quickly, and stream well. After the initial installation, it's the second configuration that is what takes more work.

I would recommend this solution for customers. However, the solution has to match the customer's use case.

I rate VMware Workstation a ten out of ten.

It's a very good tool for testing labs on my own computer. This is only the use.

VMware Workstation is great for migrating and patching operating systems. 

My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors.

I used VMware Workstation in a testing lab two months ago, but it was only for internal testing. We only tried it out for about five days.

Workstation is stable and scalable. 

Workstation is easy to set up. It only took about 15 minutes. 

I rate VMware Workstation nine out of 10. It's a very good product. 

The primary use case of this product is to connect to my virtual interpreter of VMs and the like. In the event of an emergency, or if the user wants to deploy a VM on his own virtual system, Workstation can create a number of VMs in their own system, without having to connect back to the network. We deploy this solution for our clients and have around 15 customers that are using it. We are resellers of VMware Workstation.  

This product has a lot of good features and the basic one is for solving connection problems. Users can deploy the test machines or the VM machines on their own system and do the testing part. They can set up their own lab or own test set up on their system and do what they need.

I think that performance could be improved by making it more effective and less resource consuming. It's a little clunky. 

The solution is stable, we haven't had any issues.

This solution is scalable - you can install it on your system and run a number of VMs which connect back to the central data, so it's inter-connectable, connecting access to VPNs.

The initial setup of this product was straightforward. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10.