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)."We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"The solution is now stable."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"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."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"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."
"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."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"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 74 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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