Director of IT at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Top 20
Sep 17, 2025
We have VLANs configured on VMware, but we don't do it on there per se since it's connected to our network. We do our VLANs mostly internally; actually they're all set up as trunks on VMware. The VLANs that we set up internally that are more specific are set up on our edge switches. On a scale of 1-10, I rate VMware Workstation a nine.
We initially intended to work with Hyper-V ( /products/hyper-v-reviews ) because we are selling a virtual appliance and thought our customers would want to run that on Hyper-V ( /products/hyper-v-reviews ). Then we realized that everybody is still using ESXi. I don't know whether that has changed in the last few months because Broadcom has bought VMware, and I think there is a lot of movement there. Some of our customers are switching to open source solutions away from Broadcom. But not Hyper-V. None of our customers are actually using Hyper-V, so we currently have a Hyper-V installation. If ever a customer would want to see our appliance on Hyper-V, we are able to look into that, but currently we are not actively working with Hyper-V.I would rate VMware Workstation a nine.
Operations Manager at a agriculture with 1-10 employees
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Jul 11, 2024
You can get a pre-bundled, pre-packaged, pre-configured virtual machine from a provider like Cisco. When you create the virtual machine, you specify the number of cores and the amount of memory, and the package handles the rest, setting up the Cisco infrastructure. Since the most recent Windows update and with the PC over IP solution we use, we've been experiencing occasional conflicts with workstation cards that connect to the remote desktops. These random crashes, which started in the last three months, are unrecoverable, and we have to reboot the entire base hardware. It's clean and stable. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
System Engineer/ Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees
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Top 5
May 31, 2024
I recommend it only for small things or environmental tests. For Big companies, the solution is designed as a virtual DC with a VMware clusters network.
Lv 2 Windows Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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Jun 27, 2022
If you have a big environment with thousands of servers, VMware Player can have problems, and migrations can be extremely slow. But if you have a small-to-middle-sized environment, VMware Player is a good choice. I would rate VMware Player as seven out of ten.
VMware Workstation is part of a suite of robust Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) tools or Desktop Hypervisors that allows users to run Kubernetes clusters, containers, and Virtual Machines (VMs). Users have the option to choose between VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Workstation Player to ensure that they get the most out of their VMware Workstation experience.
Workstation Player is best used as a command line or single graphical operation. It works very well for running different...
We have VLANs configured on VMware, but we don't do it on there per se since it's connected to our network. We do our VLANs mostly internally; actually they're all set up as trunks on VMware. The VLANs that we set up internally that are more specific are set up on our edge switches. On a scale of 1-10, I rate VMware Workstation a nine.
We initially intended to work with Hyper-V ( /products/hyper-v-reviews ) because we are selling a virtual appliance and thought our customers would want to run that on Hyper-V ( /products/hyper-v-reviews ). Then we realized that everybody is still using ESXi. I don't know whether that has changed in the last few months because Broadcom has bought VMware, and I think there is a lot of movement there. Some of our customers are switching to open source solutions away from Broadcom. But not Hyper-V. None of our customers are actually using Hyper-V, so we currently have a Hyper-V installation. If ever a customer would want to see our appliance on Hyper-V, we are able to look into that, but currently we are not actively working with Hyper-V.I would rate VMware Workstation a nine.
I would recommend VMware Workstation. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate VMware Workstation a seven.
You can get a pre-bundled, pre-packaged, pre-configured virtual machine from a provider like Cisco. When you create the virtual machine, you specify the number of cores and the amount of memory, and the package handles the rest, setting up the Cisco infrastructure. Since the most recent Windows update and with the PC over IP solution we use, we've been experiencing occasional conflicts with workstation cards that connect to the remote desktops. These random crashes, which started in the last three months, are unrecoverable, and we have to reboot the entire base hardware. It's clean and stable. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I recommend it only for small things or environmental tests. For Big companies, the solution is designed as a virtual DC with a VMware clusters network.
Overall, I rate VMware Player a nine out of ten.
We have a license for VMware Workstation Player. Overall, I rate VMware Player ten out of ten.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
If you have a big environment with thousands of servers, VMware Player can have problems, and migrations can be extremely slow. But if you have a small-to-middle-sized environment, VMware Player is a good choice. I would rate VMware Player as seven out of ten.