VMware Workstation Pro provides the following features and VM options that are not available in VMware Player:
Auto Protect automatically takes VM snapshots at the specified regular time interval when a VM is powered on. AutoProtect snapshots are not available for VMs running in VMware Player even if the VM was created and configured in VMware Workstation Pro.
Guest Isolation. You can enable or disable the use of the drag & drop and copy/paste features from a host to guest and the other way round. Disable these features and disable networking if you want your VM to be completely isolated from the host
OS. VMware Tools must be installed on a guest
OS for the guest isolation feature to be available.
VNC Connections. You can use this built-in feature in VMware Workstation Pro to connect to your VM remotely to the VNC client without installing the VNC server on the VM. The VNC client must be installed on the machine from which you are connecting to the VM. To connect to a VM, you should specify the
IP address and port of a host machine on which VMware Workstation Pro is installed. Be aware that there are some limitations when you connect to a VM by using VNC, for example, you cannot edit VM settings, change the VM state, copy/paste data, etc.
Advanced options provide some additional options, including firmware type (BIOS/UEFI), gathering debugging information, process priorities, etc.