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 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."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The product helped us deploy complex applications."
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"I find the product to be quite stable...It is a scalable solution...The documentation of VMware Horizon View is quite good."
"It's centralized management, and you have access gateway to enter the the VMs from outside."
"The most valuable feature of this solution has been security."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"VMware Horizon View has worked a lot to improve the solutions. There are some issues in the delivery of the applications, such as network problems. You can lose your connection at times."
"User profiles are something that needs to be improved."
"Using a printer with the VDI is not a straightforward process."
"There is room for improvement in support. The response time could be faster."
"The technical support offered by VMware is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There should be a function where one can connect and work; whenever not required, one can deprovision it."
"VMware support is okay, but sometimes it's a little bit hit or miss trying to get somebody who knows what they're doing and talking about."
"Sometimes, the protocol itself gets a bit laggy. If you have less than optimal switching and routing, it can get kind of laggy."
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 19th 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 and OpenText Exceed TurboX, whereas VMware Horizon View is most compared with VMware Horizon, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), Citrix Workspace, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS).
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