We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VMware vSphere, and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The technical support is good."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution works on Microsoft servers."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"The solution is now stable."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"It is easy to use."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"The performance is efficient."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"We can undo some changes using the snapshot feature."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"The simplicity of the deployment and the implementation, and the footprint for the hardware are some of the solution's valuable features."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"The training profiles could be better."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having graphical acceleration."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The biggest problem in this solution is the incompatibility of some of the features with some of the drivers installed on servers. For example, if I want to install vSphere on an HPE server, the driver is really different from a Dell server or a Fujitsu server. I need to download different drivers and install them manually, which can be improved by VMware. They can offer a special image to match different servers. We face different problems when we install vSphere on an ESXi server and have different drivers on the storage. ESXi cannot detect different kinds of storage, and they should improve this. We updated our existing version to vSphere 7 in a private environment, but it seems that this version is not very stable. We are facing issues with restarting the host. In earlier versions, such as vSphere 6 or 6.5, we didn't have any such problems. It would be good if VMware can offer specific applications for mobiles to enable us to control the management of all servers by mobile. They should also improve the vCenter GUI because it is currently not compatible, and there are a lot of problems. Some of the options do not appear well in the browser. VMware should spend more time resolving the problems in the GUI."
"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 do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
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