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."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."
"We use VMware Horizon to digitalize environments."
"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."
"One of the most interesting features in the enterprise version is the ability to do some support. There is a feature for remote control and debugging, which is something we didn't have before having Horizon 7 and the enterprise version."
"The application delivery is it's most valuable feature."
"VMware offers a friendly environment, and it's easy to provide the user with the package. It is a bundled solution that is readily deployable. The advantage lies in its simplicity, it requires minimal expertise."
"The features are good."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Technical support is very good."
"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."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The product works well."
"VMware Horizon needs to integrate with Azure, Teams, and Zoom."
"The majority of things in VMware Horizon can be done only in Windows and not in Linux. There are Linux customers who would like to use VMware Horizon's features."
"There are some issues with RAM in the system."
"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."
"I would like to see the VDP or other features for backing up the VMs."
"My deployment is complex and I hope it will only take a month."
"VMware Horizon could be improved with more integration. It is also very costly for Enterprise Plus, which is a drawback. The renewal costs for the license are very, very high."
"In the next release, I would like to have more support when optimizing the master templates for PDI. There are tools that are available to be used but they are not supported at the moment and are more, "use at your own risk.""
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"The product’s virtual machine data backup feature needs upgrading."
"The support can be improved."
"The price should be reduced."
VMware Horizon is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 35 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 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 Sangfor aDesk VDI, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Citrix Workspace. See our VMware Horizon vs. VMware Workstation report.
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