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."Things can be made easier if someone is not with us or at a long distance since we can connect easily with those people. So, it's easy for us to use such features."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is scalable."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"I like the capability of logging into one system, then being able to shift over to another system within that single pane of glass."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"VMware's high availability which supports our SLA, VMware on the fly features like LUN expansion, P2V and API integrations are the most valuable features."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to be able to access the remote desktop using a web-based interface, rather than having to use the client."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"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."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 75 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, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and KVM.
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