We performed a comparison between VMware Horizon View and VMware Player 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 solution's most valuable aspect is the VDI - the remote virtual desktop interface."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Great for desktop management, particularly when it comes to all the upgrades."
"I like that it updates quickly and allows users to have virtual desktops."
"VMware Horizon View is an easy-to-use solution."
"The solution has good performance and functionality. However, if the network connection was poor we noticed a decrease in performance."
"This product works quickly and is reliable."
"VMware's technical support is good."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"They need to make troubleshooting, diagnostics, and error reporting a little better."
"VMware support is okay, but sometimes it's a little bit hit or miss trying to get somebody who knows what they're doing and talking about."
"The system integration also needs some improvement."
"VMware Horizon View can improve by making it easier to use for first-time users. You should learn the whole concept of VMware to be able to use it."
"The tool is not future-proof anymore."
"In VMware Horizon View, app volume is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Horizon View could be more stable."
"The system is not designed to allow the client to log in easily."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Workstation, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our VMware Horizon View vs. VMware Player report.
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