

We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference Reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We monitor all Server Virtualization Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, KVM, Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Acropolis AOS, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, KVM, VMware Horizon View, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox. On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "Easy to use, powerful virtualization capabilities, and good performance". The top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services". VMware vSphere is rated 8.8, while VMware Workstation is rated 9.0. VMware vSphere is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 7 reviews.

VM Workstation is best as a test environment, although many choose to use VM Workstation in front of VM vSphere and migrate test projects, results, and data documentation to VM vSphere. VM vSphere is a hypervisor and is created for large-scale production. The two solutions are both VMware and perform amazingly. The pricing and licensing options can get expensive. We found there were occasional bugs and errors and that the HTML5 is not up to par. This solution does not permit hard partitioning. You need to have a good understanding of VMware. The initial setup with VMware vSphere can be a bit complex. VMware vSphere is very stable and very scalable. The command-line tools integrate well with Microsoft products, so it’s easy to manipulate them. VMware vSphere is very good with memory sharing between VMs and CPU scheduling between VMs. VMware vSphere is very good from a recoverability point of view everything can be stored much easier on a virtual server than a physical one.

Visio stencil for technical documentation would be a nice improvement. There is a lot of resource consumption and the overall performance could be a bit more effective. VM Workstation can be a bit clunky, though. This solution is also great at creating labs for our team when working on certifications. VM Workstation can also give us an idea of the issues we can anticipate and how best to address them. We like VM Workstation primarily to test environments to determine how well a solution will work before we put it into production. VM Workstation’s setup is so easy, you can use it almost instantly, it works well with Windows and Linux.
