We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."We use cloud remote support because we need to assist our customers. It allows them to connect from the web. I"
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"It's pretty stable."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"For me, the most valuable feature would be the EVC, but EVC has been changed to be per-VM which makes it possible for us to migrate the VMs to cloud and not take into account what hardware they're running on. Also, a big improvement from the previous version is that I'm now able to schedule backup for the VCSA. That is, in my opinion, a huge improvement. The last thing that I think is really great is, I'm not able to boot the OS and not the entire server. That's going to save me a lot of time."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"The product is not very scalable."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"The stability must be improved."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and KVM.
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