We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"You can scale the product."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"It's pretty stable."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"The performance depends on connectivity."
"There could be some improvement in the integration of the solution."
"We'd like to see more integration with other vendors."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"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."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 32 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 10th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Light, built into the operating system, and requires no implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Player writes "Simple to set up, user-friendly, and makes building test environments easy". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with VMware Horizon, TeamViewer, Parallels Access, Citrix Workspace and VMware Horizon Cloud, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Parallels Desktop and VMware Workspace ONE. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Player report.
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