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."The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution works on Microsoft servers."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature is the remote application access."
"We use cloud remote support because we need to assist our customers. It allows them to connect from the web. I"
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"One of the things I like with the web client, versus the thick client, is that we're able to access all the vCenters that we manage. With the thick client, you have to log in to one vCenter at a time."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"The solution is scalable."
"Security-Features; vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used. Since we do have so many different departments and areas with a lot of people that need access into the solution, we can use the role-based access controls to really restrict and control who can do what, so everybody can do what they need to do, but they can't do anything else past that."
"It could offer better security for enterprises."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"In the past, my company had faced some issues related to the stability of the product. The product's stability can be improved."
"We'd like to see more integration with other vendors."
"The solution isn't as good as the Citrix option."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"Support for the product is not good enough."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 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, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and KVM.
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