#1 most frequent
United States of America
72.8%292 installations of 401
What is VMware Workstation Pro?
VMware Workstation Pro is virtualization software which allows running multiple x86-based operating systems on one PC. Users can run Windows, Linux and BSD virtual machines on a Windows or Linux desktop.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Management console
Management console for central administration of vm environment
Category average: 8
Live virtual machine backup
Ability to backup vms without interrupting service
Category average: 8
Hypervisor-level security
Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Live virtual machine migration
Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters
Category average: 7.9
Virtual machine automated provisioning
Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates
Category average: 7.8
Who Buys & Uses VMware Workstation Pro
#2 most frequent
Canada
9.0%36 installations of 401
#3 most frequent
France
3.0%12 installations of 401
Great little virtualization tool for lots of potential.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
For the most part, we use it to support businesses' operating systems that are required for legacy software, allowing them to virtualize these systems on new hardware. It runs Windows XP Pro OS on top of Windows 10 and 11, making it possible to utilize custom legacy software and allowing for the use of COM/LTP ports.
Pros
- Legacy OS Virtualization.
- COM/LTP support.
- Virtual Hard Drive manipulations.
Cons
- Easy P2V migration utility.
Return on Investment
- Thousands of dollars of savings virtualizing legacy operating systems.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, VMware Fusion, VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter
Other Software Used
VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, VMware vCenter, Sage Accounting, Sage 50, Sage 500 ERP
Reliable Yet Clunky
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use it to connect to and manage our servers which are all virtualized. I also use it to connect to our other clusters that host our VDI environment in order to maintain and update the master VMs.
Pros
- Allows connections to multiple vCenters
- Multiple tabs for each VM makes navigation easy
Cons
- App is clunky and slow to expand inventories
Return on Investment
- It's made it easier to manage VMs
- It still requires using the web interface for some functions
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Hyper-V and Oracle VM VirtualBox
Expensive, yet fine enough hypervisor solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It helps to virtualize and deploy critical workloads like application and file servers, phone systems, backup appliances, etc.
Pros
- Well documented, well known hypervisor solution
- Easy, fast setup
- Simple, easy to deploy virtual appliances
Cons
- Support is useless; you need to relay on Googling and community support
- Compatibilty challenges on major OS platforms like Windows and Linux based on out-of-date development
- Performance issues with Linux distros
Return on Investment
- Business continuity because you have inherited the software
- Low maintenance
- Expensive
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Hyper-V
Flexible Cloud Services Management Product which offers the Easy and Effective Options with Various IT Solutions.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Highly powerful and easy Cloud package for the business data easy visualization and the management of multiple running services for the companies is effective. The VMware Workstation Pro provides us with great production workflow management possibilities and the ability to create required reports via this platform is fantastic and the ability to protect data through their Cloud services channels is effective.
Pros
- I like the easy to integrate the solution.
- Functionalities on data migration is good.
- Useful platform for the project time management.
Cons
- Very easy platform but the interface is not that friendly to new user.
- For those new providing productive data analytics for multiple data is challenging.
- The performance on poor hardware machine is very poor.
Return on Investment
- Productive solution with nice performance for easy analytics production and the reports are very classy.
- Preparation and collection of valuable data insights.
- Excellent for easy project workflow management and file management tool.
Alternatives Considered
IBM PowerVM, Hyper-V and ServiceNow App Engine
Other Software Used
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, SAP HANA, Pantheon
Powerful Virtualisation Tool
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.
Return on Investment
- Low cost.
- Less reliable.
- Resource allocation.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Other Software Used
Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)