An excellent high performing product that makes desktop virtualization simple and cost effective
August 29, 2019
An excellent high performing product that makes desktop virtualization simple and cost effective
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware Fusion
As a charter school management organization, we strive to provide the best educational tools to our students. As such, we have deployed Mac labs utilizing Apple iMac computers, which work great for almost all curriculum, except some STEM and liberal arts applications that are not available for Mac. The decision to go with VMware Fusion was an easy one after we evaluated the available options for virtualizing MS Windows on the iMacs in order to get compatibility with some of the Windows-only programs. Unlike the competition, the VMware Fusion upgrade and update process as new versions come out is much simpler and as easy as point and click. it is also cheaper and its performance is on par with all the other visualization desktop products. A great addition to anyone's toolkit.
- Accelerates Windows applications on Mac very smoothly.
- Great options for VM management down to CPU cores and host RAM utilization.
- Very easy to update/upgrade with just a click of the mouse.
- Video Acceleration could be improved.
- More features can be added for integration to the host OS, such as to send email to VM client.
- Smoother coherence.
- Being less expensive than the competition, it has enabled us to deploy more computers for our students
- It has reduced the effort to manage and update that our IT staff have to exert to keep the systems up-to-date
- It has provided our students with a great learning environment that is flexible and allows for fine control of resource utilization
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.