I know MacTech did a review and shows Parallels 6 is better than VMWare Fusion 3. The review focuses on performance. Our challenge is to decide on which preserves our ROI best. If performance is high but support doesn't answer emails or calls, then our ROI is impacted.
We have a client with a fairly substantial VM deployment (500 or so instances), and all are individual licenses. So according to JAMF' and Parallels' documentation, automated deployment is only possible with volume license. When we looked at the VM deployment strategy in place in this environment, it was clearly flawed. So we reached out to the procurement team to get information on licensing, with our plan being to consolidate our Parallels licensing. Hopefully we can do this without disrupting the deployed copies of Parallels (most vendors work with us on this kind of thing).
Anyway, I wanted to poll the Casper admins here to see which of these two VM solutions they have deployed, and if there are any reasons to consider one over the other. Not talking about performance, we are mainly concerned about ROI. Which do you prefer and why? Which is easier to deploy, manage, etc.
PS, Just noticed Parallels announced a new Enterprise version/tool for managing settings during deployment (ala AAMEE?).
Thanks,
Don
