VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware Fusion	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Vmware Fusion is a virtual user session software built to run Windows applications on Macintosh to run any Windows applications.	N/A

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	VMware Fusion
Considered Both Products	VMware Fusion SS Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer Chose VMware Fusion As mentioned previously, perpetual licensing was the #1 reason. The interface is also cleaner, simpler, and less bloat. Parallels also seem to run a bit slower. Fusion was also more stable and significantly faster in both raw performance and graphics compared to Virtualbox. … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Chandler Founder Chose VMware Fusion I have only used VMware Fusion, but I selected it compared to its competitors because of the reviews I read and the demos I saw. My decision was based on these factors: (1) reliability - this app is very stable; (2) simultaneous environments - some competitors require you to … Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer Chose VMware Fusion GitHub and Bitbucket are both used by our company for code sharing and are much easier to use for collaborative source code versioning. We internally use GitHub and have some clients who use Bitbucket. In some cases, we have software projects that are very hard to configure, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose VMware Fusion I've heard of other/competitive software but frankly once I tried VMware, I never looked back. There is absolutely nothing that I need that this product does not deliver. It's fast, effective and seems to be extremely durable and reliable. My only concern (and minor) might have … Incentivized Helpful? Stefan Semo Director of IT Infrastructure, Security & Compliance and Customer Service Chose VMware Fusion VMWare Fusion is easier to deploy and manage than Parallels and also has a much simpler and less expensive licensing system. For us these are win-win. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose VMware Fusion To be fair, with other products, if pricing was a problem for the organization, I would choose VirtualBox, because it works very well on Mac environment and it has most of the features that VMware Fusion has. However, I personally like the way I can run my Microsoft Windows … Incentivized Helpful? AP Aaron Pinsker Owner Chose VMware Fusion As Hyper-V is Windows specific product, and primarily designed for Windows Server, it is difficult to compare Fusion and Hyper-V as they cater to different customer needs. Comparing Fusion to Parallels is a bit more complicated as they are extremely similar products. Briefly, … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect Chose VMware Fusion VM Fusion is a leader. It has more functionality and capability for workstation virtualization application. Its unity view and resource management of virtual guests is far superior to any other Mac workstation virtualization applications on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware Fusion If you only need to run a single Windows VM for a handful of applications and do not need to do testing or run multiple operating systems, Parallels Desktop may be the better choice, especially for less technical end users. Parallels is a bit more user friendly. If you need … Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Chose VMware Fusion VMware Fusion works much better for us because of the migration capabilities. We use VMware vSphere and the migration/conversion is seamless. Some of the other virtualization application do not covert or migrate VMs onto other platforms as easily. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Timms IT Specialist Chose VMware Fusion I personally have used just about every brand of virtualization software from Virtualbox for Windows, Hyper-v for Windows, KVM for Linux, and VMWare for Windows. Personally my favorite is KVM for Linux because it is lightweight and very fast, but as far as virtual machines go, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose VMware Fusion As far as I know, VMWare is the only solution that really did what we used it for. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Shannon Director of Technology Chose VMware Fusion VMware fusion is very similar to Parallels but is lower priced, so its my preferred solution for running Windows on a macintosh computer. Vmware is also made by a much more well known company with a large support staff in place, so getting help with vmware fusion is always … Incentivized Helpful? Zach Cooper Site Reliability Engineer Chose VMware Fusion Fusion seems to run better than Parallels. It also is much more user friendly and intuitive to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose VMware Fusion I actually think it's almost exactly the same as VirtualBox. VirtualBox I used for hosting a Linux distribution, and I think that there are inherently more problems to configuring a Linux distribution than there are to a Windows virtual machine, so mostly my issues were due to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose VMware Fusion VMware Fusion stacks up against VirtualBox. I selected VMware Fusion for its easy to use UI and clear steps available and documentation available online. It is also a popular tool, so to get an exposure to this tool, I opted to learn about it by myself. Also, there are many … Incentivized Helpful? Fatima Tipu Enterprise Support Manager Chose VMware Fusion Virtual Box is a free option, so WMware Fusion is more robust and I'd say more reliable. It's also more appropriate for handling more complex VM setups. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose VMware Fusion Speed and reliability. Easier to use Frequent updates Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Duff Macintosh Service Desk Technician III Chose VMware Fusion All of this changes from year to year, too. Parallels and VMware both require that you buy an annual license every year to get updates that pack in performance gains and feature improvements. These annual updates are great in theory, but they’re not cheap, and they come every … Incentivized Helpful?
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Top Cons	Minus User interface Minus Amount of ram Minus Host machine

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User Ratings
	VMware Fusion
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	VMware Fusion
Likelihood to Recommend	VMware by Broadcom Due to its perpetual licensing model, VMware Fusion is a great option for users whose needs do not change as much over time. It is also great for occasional-use scenarios such as testing and preparing code to run on newer platforms. Fusion is not really recommended for running graphics-intense applications as graphics acceleration in Fusion is fairly limited in both performance and API support. It has, however, come a very long way and offers near-native performance for many tasks. Incentivized SS Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer Read full review
Pros	VMware by Broadcom Allows users to run Windows only applications on their Mac without switching devices. Fusion is excellent for Windows image creation, and works exceptionally well on the Mac environment. Assists a Mac user to virtualize Windows apps. Excellent for installing Linux distros for penetration testing. Incentivized Michael Timms IT Specialist Read full review
Cons	VMware by Broadcom With OSX - 10.14.1 and the latest version of Fusion - 11.0.2 the user interface has taken a step back IMHO. I would like to see price decrease. Better remote host connection capabilities - remote server connections are available but connections are spotty. Incentivized Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	VMware by Broadcom For Apple workstations VMware Fusion is the virtualization software to use. No other application (free or paid) can do what Fusion can. The features and constant updates make Fusion an application that cant be beat. Incentivized Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect Read full review
Usability	VMware by Broadcom Sometimes the best surprise is no surprise and Fusion is just that. It's reliable and generally just works as expected every time (the only exception was running a boot camp install directly but that use-case scenario opens a can of worms due to how product activation works) The interface and settings are clean and simple and there is no hide and seek games to play. Incentivized SS Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer Read full review
Support Rating	VMware by Broadcom I have never contacted VMware, but there is a lot of support online on message boards, forums, StackOverflow, YouTube tutorial videos, and the like. VMware has been around nine years longer than its leading competitor, VirtualBox, although both seem to have a good presence of online user communities who can help solve issues that come up. Incentivized Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer Read full review
Implementation Rating	VMware by Broadcom This is a workstation application and no install insights are needed. Incentivized Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect Read full review
Alternatives Considered	VMware by Broadcom I've heard of other/competitive software but frankly once I tried VMware, I never looked back. There is absolutely nothing that I need that this product does not deliver. It's fast, effective and seems to be extremely durable and reliable. My only concern (and minor) might have to do with memory resources, but frankly it has not been an issue yet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	VMware by Broadcom Users using a VM often don't need something as "fancy" as VMware Fusion, and instead can use a free option like Virtual Box, so we waste money on using an extra amount of VMware Fusion licenses. Developers using and IT admins using VMware Fusion for testing saves us time and money. Simply, we know mistakes would take time and money to fix, but VMware is powerful, allows for proper and fast testing. Incentivized Fatima T Enterprise Support Manager Read full review
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