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."Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The product is really easy to use."
"The features are good."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"It's stable."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"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."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
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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