We performed a comparison between Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), VMware Workspace ONE, and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Valuable features include the ability to set up security groups for accessing certain apps, and the ability to add apps easily and centrally without touching the servers they’re hosted on."
"It permits us to control the applications that our users are able to get to, in a seamless manner. We're able to distribute applications to users' desktops, just like those applications are on each user's computer, but they're not."
"It is robust. We have some 75 users using it and it doesn't lag. It's very speedy."
"The stability is ok - once I finished the setup, the system was quite stable."
"The solution is powerful, and it has good speed and performance."
"Thin client management (Windows 10 client) provides an easy way to lock down client connection to the remote infrastructure. Policies are very helpful for preconfiguring client behavior. Finally, client management is easy."
"Setup was straightforward. Our particular use case involved an Active Directory forest involving two data centers and three domains. User authentication against Active Directory was the easiest to set up and validate of any application installed in the last three years."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Workspace ONE is its reliability."
"It has good stability."
"App delivery and management platform that's user-friendly, with a good interface. Easy to scale, easy to set up, with good stability."
"VMware Workspace ONE has been stable so far."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the tracking of the devices."
"It's a tool that can be managed in various departments."
"The platform makes the mobile device management process straightforward to handle."
"It is a stable solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"The technical support is good."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"I appreciate the ease of backup and snapshot creation. The ability to revert to previous versions without losing data is very useful for our team."
"The performance is good."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"Sometimes you need to understand how to use load balancing and the gateway in order to scale, which means the team may need some additional technical knowledge."
"If the solution crashes, then all the customers connected through that agent, lose their session."
"The product does not utilize SQL for reporting purposes. Also, it does not support some hypervisors similar to Citrix. These particular areas need improvement."
"Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The solution's application virtualization feature needs improvement."
"It would be great if there were more sophisticated GPO templates/options."
"We use several gateways because access to our secret zone requires two-factor user authentication. It is a lot of hassle differentiating among users with or without two-factor. Of course, we could use two farms, but that would mean more management too."
"Currently in the RD Session Hosts – Sessions section, I can see what server a user is logged into but not what app he is using. Being able to do so would be immensely helpful when a non-technical user is complaining of issues, but I can’t tell which app he is using, and he is actually logged into multiple servers since they serve multiple apps."
"They need a more flexible pricing model."
"Sometimes, we have challenges with remote patching and remote version upgrades."
"Setup is not too complex."
"Security aspects such as data loss prevention could be improved."
"The only downside to the solution is that the dashboard is very confusing."
"The length of time it takes to deploy an application could improve."
"The solution is too complicated. A lot of end customers don't know how to start when they go into the console."
"This product makes use of SAML across the board, which has seven known security flaws. It would be good if the company created a way to protect against SAML flaws. One way would be to integrate a firewall server or an endpoint out in the cloud with which you could establish trust. If you knew nothing about SAML and you did some Google searches about what SAML is, what are the flaws, and what are the known vulnerabilities, eventually, you'll find that there are seven flaws. There are two methods that you can use to solve those seven problems. They essentially involve putting a firewall or putting rules, such as access controls, so that anybody in the world can't just come in, authenticate, and either be a good guy or be someone trying to knock on my door and get into my house. If I could eliminate that, it would be awesome."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
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