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."Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services are unification, central management, and accessibility."
"The product saves time."
"The solution works well as a remote desktop."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"I like that it works. In most cases, it's predictable. You know what you get."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"I like the standard features."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"I want to connect easily from an external network even when I'm not in my enterprise or company. It should be easy to connect or integrate Microsoft Teams, for example, with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"There are problems with using Microsoft Teams within a virtual desktop on a mobile device."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"It is expensive."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
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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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