We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops 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 feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is scalable."
"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."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature of this solution at the moment is the HTML5 web client. You get a browser experience, not just the terminal sort of client, and the integration with Azure multi-factor application."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"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."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"Microsoft should be more compatible with other operating system."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 75 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 19th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops writes "Manages all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is most compared with Oracle VDI, VMware Horizon View and OpenText Exceed TurboX.
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