We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Fusion 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."I give the stability a nine out of ten."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"The installation is straightforward."
"Since the tool has a graphical user interface, it's easier for us to access the server."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The most value that it provides is that it is versatile."
"The product is easy to use and has a simple user interface."
"The whole point of it is to run Windows VMs on a Mac. This is the most valuable feature. There is snapshotting, but we don't really use that. The Pro version allows me to actually attach to the Windows ESXi infrastructure at the backend, and I'm able to create a session that I can attach to the VMware hooks at the backend, so one is running a VM, and the whole operating system is running on the actual Mac. The other one is literally a frontend to the VMs that are running in the infrastructure at the backend. These are the two main features I use."
"The pricing could be better."
"We'd like more granular security control of the desktop services."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"Microsoft Desktop Services is stable but it takes up a lot of resources in the CPU. It's a bit heavier than some solutions."
"The performance of Remote Desktop Services could be better."
"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.""
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"The way they handle snapshotting can be improved. One time, I moved a machine from one to another, and I tried to pull it up on the second machine, but it didn't work. This was because I had not cleaned up the snapshot before I deleted it and moved it across. So, when I tried to pull it up, it wouldn't let me bring it up. The backups for the VMs themselves can also be improved. I pretty much have to rely on Windows backups and not something on VMware. That's where it needs improvement. I am able to upload from my Fusion into the ESXi easily. I'm able to spin something up on Fusion and push it into the big arena, but the reverse is not as easy, that is, trying to pull something down from that. I would love to have a functionality where I could pull something from the VMware infrastructure into Fusion, but I'm not sure if I can take something from ESXi and pull it into Fusion."
"Its installation process could be simpler."
"I would like to see newer and updated cloud functions."
"VMware Fusion's licensing cost needs improvement."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Fusion is ranked 7th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 5 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Fusion is rated 9.0. 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 VMware Fusion writes "Robust software with efficient snapshot and cloning features". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Fusion is most compared with Parallels Desktop, VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Horizon View. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Fusion report.
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