Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs VMware Fusion Pro comparison

"Instead of pointing to any single feature, I would say the most valuable aspect of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is the overall product itself. Virtualized apps and desktops, in theory and in practice, are very helpful to users."

"The shadow feature is extraordinary and helps a lot when supporting remote users."

"Citrix Virtual Apps is the most valuable feature. Many customers use this feature to publish only applications, and not the full desktop. They can publish the internal resource or allow the end-user to reach a site or an application without having the full desktop. That's why they love this feature. It helps them save on resources."

"It has the best remote working features."

"Among the most valuable features is the Citrix Workspace, which allows us to drive that thin-client connection and the remote control/remote access capabilities. Those things have allowed us to connect an awful lot of people quickly from home and that's obviously helped during the pandemic."

"I found the ease of deployment, scalability, and security to be to our benefit when supplying virtual applications to our clients."

"Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is a stable solution."

"I use Citrix DaaS to connect to devices."

"The whole point of it is to run Windows VMs on a Mac. This is the most valuable feature. There is snapshotting, but we don't really use that. The Pro version allows me to actually attach to the Windows ESXi infrastructure at the backend, and I'm able to create a session that I can attach to the VMware hooks at the backend, so one is running a VM, and the whole operating system is running on the actual Mac. The other one is literally a frontend to the VMs that are running in the infrastructure at the backend. These are the two main features I use."

"The product is easy to use and has a simple user interface."

"It is a highly stable solution."

"The most value that it provides is that it is versatile."

"Pricing and technical support need improvement."

"Citrix has to support all of the hypervisors including KVM and OpenStack KVM."

"The Endpoint Management solution needs improvement when it comes to mobile device management. For example, they are still not supporting Windows 10 and this feature is required by many customers."

"They need to adapt more quickly to the latest additions to the Microsoft operating system. If Windows 10 comes out with a new version, there are compatibility issues and it takes them a lot of time to release an update."

"When I needed support for a couple of things, three people intervened. Each time, three people gave me a different answer. In the end, they did not manage to give the right answer. At a certain point, they stopped replying."

"There are many latency and slowness issues, which are things looked after by Citrix."

"The solution's technical support is not so good."

"The product should expand its capabilities for integrating with other environments."

"The way they handle snapshotting can be improved. One time, I moved a machine from one to another, and I tried to pull it up on the second machine, but it didn't work. This was because I had not cleaned up the snapshot before I deleted it and moved it across. So, when I tried to pull it up, it wouldn't let me bring it up. The backups for the VMs themselves can also be improved. I pretty much have to rely on Windows backups and not something on VMware. That's where it needs improvement. I am able to upload from my Fusion into the ESXi easily. I'm able to spin something up on Fusion and push it into the big arena, but the reverse is not as easy, that is, trying to pull something down from that. I would love to have a functionality where I could pull something from the VMware infrastructure into Fusion, but I'm not sure if I can take something from ESXi and pull it into Fusion."

"VMware Fusion's licensing cost needs improvement."

"Its installation process could be simpler."

"I would like to see newer and updated cloud functions."

"The Citrix license model has changed. It costs around $240 per user for a single username, but a concurrent license costs double."

"The pricing is a little bit high, but it's good value for the product's stability and efficiency."

"I think it is a little high priced."

"It is an expensive solution. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."

"I suggest using the concurrent user licensing scheme."

"The purchase price was around $300,000 USD and then the maintenance fees were 20%. There are no other additional fees."

"We recouped 60 to 70 percent of the hardware costs."

"You have to do some hard work in order to get the suitable licenses."

"I rate the product's pricing a seven or eight. It is highly-priced."

"Starting with version 12, it is now free on a Mac for personal use. Fusion Pro has a cost."

"The cost varies depending on the season and whether it is scaled up or scaled down, but I would guess that it's approximately $1,000 per month."