Horizon 8 Reviews and Pricing

reviewer1672974

Systems analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 10, 2022

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Good interface, configuration, pricing and support

Pros and Cons

"We are happy with the interface, configurations, pricing and support."

"I would like to see the VDP or other features for backing up the VMs."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for data center consolidation and the infrastructure of servers.

What is most valuable?

We are happy with the interface, configurations, pricing and support.

What needs improvement?

We are not satisfied with the storage vendor.

I would like to see the VDP or other features for backing up the VMs.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using VMware Horizon 7 for around 10 years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is sufficient for our needs.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is sufficient for our needs.

We have come out with an initiative to consolidate and reduce the data center by applying HCI infrastructure.

How are customer service and support?

We are happy with the support.

How was the initial setup?

For the most part, the initial setup is simple.

Deployment took no more than two months.

What about the implementation team?

We used resellers for the deployment.

We have issues with the storage vendor.

Mostly, one or three people are involved in the deployment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are happy with the price.

We do not have an active subscription, just a permanent license.

What other advice do I have?

I have recently been conducting searches for more vSAN and hyper-converged features.

There are around 5,000 users making use of the solution.

I rate VMware Horizon 7 as an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Carlos-Maldonado

Director comercial at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Nov 17, 2021

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Easy to customize

Pros and Cons

"The ease of customizing the terminal, including the ability to add or decrease memory."

"Sometimes we had to force values so the end-user could continue working, which caused some information to get lost."

What is most valuable?

The best thing about this product was the ease of customizing the terminal, including the ability to add or decrease memory.

What needs improvement?

One issue we had with this product was that the connection was unstable. Sometimes we had to force values so the end-user could continue working, which caused some information to get lost.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using VMware Horizon View for around three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were problems with the stability of the product's connectivity, which lowered my rating of the product.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate it an eight out of ten because the connection is unstable. It is really good in the other aspects.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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reviewer2096580

Senior Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 17, 2023

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Stable, scalable, and good support

Pros and Cons

"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."

"The integration could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for remote desktops for a small number of users, but we do not use Citrix. Therefore, Horizon View is sufficient for us to publish applications or desktops for small services.

What is most valuable?

The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications.

What needs improvement?

The integration could be improved. For example, there could be more integration and easier integration with products such as Okta and Duo. VMware Horizon View could be a multifactor authentication and authorization product, with more options for workflows, user assignments, and group assignments. Currently, it is complicated to configure a demo, so more integration would be beneficial.

For how long have I used the solution?

I am currently using the solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user321318

Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2015

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It allows us to spin up desktops and set multiple images quickly, although it lacks enough standardized instructions and rules.

Valuable Features:

The ability to spin up desktops as quickly as possible. You just build one image and then set multiple images and be ready quickly.

Improvements to My Organization:

If you have a training session, you can spin up more very quickly, which helps in the training ability for end-users.

Room for Improvement:

I wish there were more standardized instructions and rules. There are too many gotchas.

Stability Issues:

We're moving to 6.1 from 5.x, so far it's been good. An older version was unstable, but that was before I got there.

Scalability Issues:

There's some little gotchas with moving some up, and you can only have so many VMs, so it does have limitations.

Initial Setup:

It’s a little advanced because more gotchas (certificates, different servers in different order).

Other Advice:

Make sure you know the product, and do a POC first.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user148047

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 1, 2015

It controls what application a user will see in his/her desktop, but it blocks AppStack applications.

I was talking to my colleague Sven Huisman this morning and the discussion got to App Volumes and VMware UEM. We both are running some PoC's right now and are experiencing some rather interesting facts about both products.

There is one feature that I experienced before that I thought should be shared with you out there. It's something they need to work on, it's fairly simple but if it's not implemented in UEM soon, the combination with App volumes is rather useless.

Let me explain myself...

UEM

UEM is implemented to control what application a user will see in his/her desktop, this among other user profile controlling features is the core business of UEM.

App Volumes

App volumes is implemented to stop the image sprawl so you don't need 10 VDI golden images to conquer your ever demanding organization, you built one and add AppStack per department.

The marriage

The marriage took place the minute VMware acquired VMware UEM, both products suddenly are bonded, in good and in bad times until death do us part.

So what happens when you have a desktop that is controlled by UEM and you add an AppStack? Let me walk you through this.

You logon to the desktop
UEM kicks in and setup your desktop following the configuration you created
App Volumes integration with the Connection server kicks in and connects to AppStack to your desktop
You see all you apps that are installed in the image and all other settings like printers and drive mappings.

You won't however see your AppStack applications, they are there but UEM is still blocking them. The logon task of VMware UEM is happening before the AppStack is connected, the integration with the connection broker works for App Volumes but not yet for VMware UEM.

Can be tune this?

I've been playing around with it and there are a few way to get your applications available. One option is to click refresh yourself but that is of course the last option you want to give your users.

There are a few trigger available that you could use;

There is however no trigger for added AppStack and and haven't yet found a way to create something to run after logon that would do a refresh.

I created a unlock task that runs on the unlock trigger and chose UEM Refresh there. That one works for instantly after I unlock my desktop the apps are there.

I also added a scheduled task to do a refresh but again it's not really the way to go.

I think that VMware needs to add a little bit of integration here and ask the guys from Immidio to add a trigger called AppStackArrival.

If you found a great manageable way to do this, please let me know.. looking forward to it.

p.s. without UEM, App volumes will show you the applications instantly, just when you add UEM you add management on a different level that for now hurts me.

Update 5th June 2015 11:02: My co-worker Sven Huisman was digging a bit deeper and focused on AppVolumes to solve this issue. He found another workaround to solve this, this is a more workable workaround. Read about it here.

It does not solve it, the integration has to come from UEM detecting the AppStack or AppVolumes notifying UEM that it is doing something. It's at least a workable solution for now, now it's up to VMware.

Originally published on blog.webernetz.net.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user5676

Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 3, 2013

Allows for the creation of linked clone VM pools

View allows for the creation of linked clone VM pools and allows for easy administration of those pools. The automated tasks allow administrators to provision, refresh pools during off hours to keep the pools clean. View administrator is an easy tool to configure the servers in the environmnet. The ability to assign thin apps to a VM or pools of VMs in vmware view is an easy way to deploy applications to users.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user4401Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Feb 18, 2014

From my point of view, Horizon View has three main pros: first pro is the new HTML5 client with Blast, which allows Horizon to deliver full desktops to users' browsers and it has a touchscreen interface. Second pro is that the platform uses space efficiently through the SE Sparse disk format and provides native platform graphics processing unit support for 3D graphics acceleration. Third pro is that it features AppShift technology, which introduces gestures and UI changes that make it easier to use Windows and Windows desktop applications on touch-based devices and support for the Nvidia Virtual Graphics Platform and Microsoft Lync communicator.

reviewer1738062

Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 13, 2022

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Solution for virtualizing workloads and applications; it offers good support, scalability, and stability

Pros and Cons

"Scalable and stable virtualization solution, with good technical support offering timely responses."

"Areas for improvement in VMware Horizon 7 would be the logging and the troubleshooting, e.g. they could be made clearer."

What is our primary use case?

VMware Horizon 7 virtualizes workloads and applications.

What needs improvement?

Areas for improvement in VMware Horizon 7 would be the logging and the troubleshooting, e.g. they could be made clearer.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been dealing with VMware Horizon 7 for six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I'm satisfied with the stability of VMware Horizon 7. Its stability is good enough.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I find the scalability of VMware Horizon 7 good, because you can scale it in any kind of way. You can add more hosts, then you'll have a bigger solution.

How are customer service and support?

We have normal issues that appear, then we have to contact support for this product. The support is good, and they respond in a timely fashion.

How was the initial setup?

The installation process for this product is not as straightforward, but it's also not as complicated.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We're paying monthly for the license of VMware Horizon 7.

What other advice do I have?

I'm an integrator for VMware Horizon 7 and other products, for any project plan.

I'm satisfied with the performance of this product.

We have five users of VMware Horizon 7.

I can recommend this product to people who are looking into using or implementing it.

My rating for VMware Horizon 7 is eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

reviewer1473789

Senior Application Developer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Jun 11, 2021

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Being able to have access to local hardware is valuable, but if you don't have optimal switching and routing, it can get kind of laggy

Pros and Cons

"The local hardware pass-throughs are valuable. I like being able to have access to local hardware."

"Sometimes, the protocol itself gets a bit laggy. If you have less than optimal switching and routing, it can get kind of laggy."

What is most valuable?

The local hardware pass-throughs are valuable. I like being able to have access to local hardware.

What needs improvement?

Sometimes, the protocol itself gets a bit laggy. If you have less than optimal switching and routing, it can get kind of laggy.

I don't know if it already has such a feature or whether it is doable, but it would be good to be able to use a thumb drive or something else or map a local directory as a drive to the VM.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for about two years. I am currently using its previous version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Its scalability is good enough.

How are customer service and technical support?

I don't use tech support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I fell in on it. We already had the license when I started working here.

How was the initial setup?

Somebody else does the setup. I just do the endpoint.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise making sure that you have a fast enough backbone. You can't go around using the cheapest available tiny switches because it is just not going to work for you.

I would give it a solid seven out of 10. I don't give a 10 very often.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.