We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"The installation of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services was easy."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"The only issue I experienced was with the initialization of the session, which affected the stability of the solution."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"The stability could be improved."
"We'd like to see more integration with other vendors."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"Response time could be improved."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 75 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and KVM.
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