VMware Workstation Pro Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score8.3 out of 10

90 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

VMware Workstation Pro provides a versatile solution for a range of use cases across different industries. For businesses, it offers a secure environment to test software and ensure its safety by running it in a virtual setting with malware. This feature has been widely appreciated by users looking to safeguard their systems. Additionally, users leverage VMware Workstation Pro to deploy development web servers in Linux on Windows machines, enabling efficient software testing. The ability to easily simulate different networking conditions using the Network Editor feature is another valuable use case, as it allows users to test scenarios that would be difficult to replicate physically. IT operations teams rely on VMware Workstation Pro for running lab environments, conducting tests, and validating software solutions and updates. This capability has proven to be indispensable in minimizing risks and ensuring smooth transitions in production infrastructure changes. Furthermore, departments find value in VMware Workstation Pro for running Android applications by virtualizing the Android platform. The software's ability to virtualize old applications that require maintenance has provided an efficient solution compared to running them on outdated hardware. In addition, users appreciate being able to try new features, software, or system updates without encountering real problems through the use of VMware Workstation Pro. This feature has allowed for seamless experimentation and risk-free exploration of new technologies. Overall, from simulating and testing operating systems or production machines to managing virtual labs or supporting older software versions, VMware Workstation Pro serves as a reliable tool for diverse user needs. Its optimized performance, resource utilization capabilities, and flexibility have made it a popular choice among users across various sectors and fields.

VMware Workstation Pro Reviews

6 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services6

Powerful Virtualisation Tool

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using VMware Workstation Pro for testing temporary environments during the development life cycle. VMware Workstation Pro is very convenient for creating, managing, and moving environments from one PC to another for testing the code level changes. We have deployed Oracle local environment on VMware Workstation Pro and it is performing as expected.

Pros

Virtual Machine deployment.
Best for creating temporary environments.
Flexibility.

Cons

Resource Sharing.
License Cost.
More OS support.

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware Workstation Pro is well suited for temporary and low-cost environments specifically for testing environments. This is well suited for small companies and home-based users and for corporate and large scale businesses it is less suited as VMware Workstation Pro is not much reliable for production environments and load-based applications.

Umair Mehboob

Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at iENGINEERING (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

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6 years of experience

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My view of VMware Workstation Pro

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we use VMware Workstation for a number of reasons.
1. We utilize it for the benefit of testing where we will have applications running and to test it within our network we will utilize a virtual machine to simulate its run and completeness.
2. It is used also to run production systems so users can remote into the system. This also allows us to make precise backups in the event of any changes made that may deem the VM unusable we can quickly revert.

Pros

allow virtualization of physical system
creation of a wide range of virtual systems from linux to windows
adapting to your current networking
ability to virtualize with other software such as GNS3

Cons

as with the latest, option for shared vm
improved network configuration manager
improved compatibility with other virtual machine software

Likelihood to Recommend

Some scenarios where VMware Workstation pro is best suited are:
1. Utilization for testing software - can install a virtual machine to simulate software requirements and testing it on your network.
2. Testing operating systems upgrades and installation on specific hardware requirements.
3. Virtualizing a physical server
4. Being able to backup a whole server and restore from it in the event of any issue occurring.

Verified User

General Manager in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

There is no Image that VMware Workstation cannot handle.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware Workstation has been used as our main virtual lab environment tool, this is where we do all our testings before publishing any new updates, as well as to troubleshoot and get more familiar with new features our product has to offer. For instance, I have multiple images set where I can quickly switch between them and spot any new changes that have been developed.

Pros

Mounting and creating multiple images.
Creating restore point.
Managing your PC resources efficiently.

Cons

Multi-monitor setup can be a problem.
Some random problems with the mouse cursor not clicking where it should but on some other spot.

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware Workstation is well suited for literally anyone, be it for a private project or for your work, It is usually being used for testing purposes or perhaps for virtual servers, whatever the task may be VMware Workstation can handle it with ease. As previously mentioned multi-monitor setup is something that needs to be worked on for the product to be fully implemented and usable in your environment.

Stefan Trbojevic

CCC Team Lead in Information Technology at NCR Corporation (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

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3 years of experience

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Throwing up Virtual Machines like a magic trick

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware Workstation automatically chooses adequately the settings needed in order to perform best, given you have "automatically" set in the relevant settings. Workstation Pro is also very efficient with the usage of your resources. The software is really full-featured for the price; it's money well spent. You can not get it wrong with this one. If you read the documentation, you can even get more benefits from the advanced usage of the tool. Allows for security research without causing harm to real machines, and it's easy to spin up to new or saved VM then reimage a machine.

Pros

I love VMWare Workstation because it is software that is fairly easy to use. The most exciting use of VMware Workstation is that it allows anyone to create a virtual machine in order to prevent viruses.
Able to install any operating system you want quickly.
Able to customize the machine operating system with RAM, Hard Disk, CPU, etc.

Cons

Audio can be a bit on the laggy side.
Having to reboot for every update and VM reboots for VMtools updates.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is really one of the best applications for virtualization in the market. The only problem is that this is not a free program, but due to all its functionalities it is worth the price.

valentine leamy

IT Technician in Information Technology at Innovative Corporate Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)

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4 years of experience

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VMware workstation virtualizes your problems - and helps you solve them

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's used by engineers to run various solutions in a sandbox, either for checking a new version or testing the current versions on customers' sample data.

Pros

Network Connections.
Mounting images.
Smooth and easily configurable interaction with the host.

Cons

The networking part could benefit from a more visual view so you see what is connected to where.
Some sort of tool so you can easily understand what is causing slowdowns of your guest OS such as your hosts I/O or too little memory provisioned for the guest.

Likelihood to Recommend

Quick comparisons between different versions of an application.
Replaying network traffic to a tool without interfering with your "real" network.

Ulf Thornander

Senior APM Specialist in Information Technology at Red Ocean Software (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

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12 years of experience

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Want a scalable virtual environment? Try Vmware Workstation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 26, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All my academic projects are done on Linux and I use it on VMware Workstation. Apart from that my Hadoop cluster and centOS machine are also deployed on Workstation virtual machines.

Pros

Allow user customization.
It's free for students
It lets you run all your virtual machines in the background

Cons

Bugs and crashing.
User interface
More customization of virtual machines

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have to deploy several virtual machines then VMware Workstation is the best option.

Ayush Choukse

student at Sjsu (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

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1 year of experience

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