We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"I like the way it can assess our system."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution should have better security."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"We'd like more granular security control of the desktop services."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. 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 Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Player report.
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