

More than 10 years ago, I built my first Microsoft Windows Server 2008 cluster with SQL Server 2005, carefully documenting each step. With LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.For as long as I have been an IT professional, VMware Workstation has been the flagship product for testing and developing infrastructure on a local system before trying deployments in production. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference

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VMware Fusion is most compared with VMware Player, VMware Horizon View, Parallels Desktop, VMware Horizon and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Proxmox VE. 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 Fusion writes "Rock solid, more flexible than other solutions, and good support". VMware Fusion is rated 9.0, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. VMware Fusion is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 3rd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 13 reviews. 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." "The GUI interface could be improved." Additionally, it could support operating systems better. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows." "VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. Setting up a remote desktop only takes a minute or so, but the Workstation itself takes some time." "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. I rate it four out of 10 for ease of installation.

"The price of VMware Workstation could improve." "It could have more platforms and CPUs." "Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky." "Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch." "Installing VMware Workstation isn't so easy.
