We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The features are good."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The simplicity of the deployment and the implementation, and the footprint for the hardware are some of the solution's valuable features."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"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."
"The support can be improved."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and RHEV, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Proxmox VE.
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