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 improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"I appreciate how simple and straightforward the operation of VMware Horizon View is."
"Ability to log in from anywhere and from a variety of devices."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"VMware's technical support is good."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The solution has a lot of Visual Desktop's persistent and non-persistent desktops which publish the applications."
"It is a stable product."
"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."
"Lacking in documentation for app settings."
"The solution is quite expensive. They should work to lower the costs if possible."
"User profiles are something that needs to be improved."
"The storage expansion in the product is a bit difficult to manage, especially when I have to modify a storage requirement of a particular area since it comes across as a complex job."
"The technical support offered by VMware is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The initial setup is a little complicated."
"The tool is not future-proof anymore."
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 18th 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 Sangfor aDesk VDI.
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