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)."It's pretty stable."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"I give the stability a nine out of ten."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"It's largely stable."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"I like the way it can assess our system."
"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."
"There are times I get disconnected from the service and when one or two attempts to establish a remote connection. Microsoft should show where the problem is, I have to find it by myself."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by allowing the sharing of the office application. For example, the ability to replace a PC when something is wrong."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"The product is not very scalable."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"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."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"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 69 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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