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 improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"It has improved our business because now we can run applications and it's easier for our students to do their exams."
"The most valuable features are Instant Clones and AppStacks."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The support from VMware is very good and they have amazing experts."
"The most valuable features of VMware Horizon View technology is easier to use and is user-friendly with the customers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution has been security."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"They need to make troubleshooting, diagnostics, and error reporting a little better."
"The product has to improve its performance and connectivity."
"I would like to see more useful monitoring within users and a more useful help desk."
"User profiles are something that needs to be improved."
"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."
"VMware Horizon View needs to improve orchestration and integrate additional images. I would also like to see its statistics."
"The issue now with VMware is that we don't know the future of the solution. Because if you follow the news, it was acquired by another company, and they are changing the old product line."
"Horizon View could be more stable."
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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, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Citrix Workspace, whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Nerdio.
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