We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops and VMware Horizon View based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"The improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."
"The embedded features of the solution are valuable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is low bandwidth consumption. It helps to improve user experience."
"Users can log in from anywhere and from a variety of devices."
"VMware is very helpful for customized platforms that offer auto-promotion and auto-deprovision."
"VMware Horizon View is easily scalable. Its onboarding is easy and comes with flash provisioning features."
"It is easy to maintain."
"VMware Horizon View is an easy-to-use solution."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"The standard license does not include certain features."
"There is room for improvement in security features."
"There is room for improvement in support. The response time could be faster."
"The storage expansion in the product is a bit difficult to manage, especially when I have to modify a storage requirement of a particular area since it comes across as a complex job."
"The system is not designed to allow the client to log in easily."
"Sometimes, the protocol itself gets a bit laggy. If you have less than optimal switching and routing, it can get kind of laggy."
"Lacks sufficiently robust audio redirections."
"The solution isn't quite mature yet. It needs more time to mature and to get more market recognition."
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 18th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) while VMware Horizon View is ranked 4th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 67 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is rated 8.0, while VMware Horizon View is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops writes "Manages all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon View writes "User-friendly, reasonably priced, and simple to install". Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is most compared with Oracle VDI and OpenText Exceed TurboX, whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS).
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