We performed a comparison between Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), VMware Workspace ONE, and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and others in Application Virtualization."Setup was straightforward. Our particular use case involved an Active Directory forest involving two data centers and three domains. User authentication against Active Directory was the easiest to set up and validate of any application installed in the last three years."
"The stability is ok - once I finished the setup, the system was quite stable."
"We use Cloudpaging to package and deploy the vast majority of our applications to our standard Windows 10 desktops. With the use of Parallels integration into Software2 AppsAnywhere hub, this means we can use the same packages to deliver Windows applications to almost any device - Windows, mac OS, iOS, Android, Linux, Xbox One, PS4 - just by ticking a box."
"We use RAS to publish cloud desktops to our clients. The ability to easily publish resources to a subset of users is what we find most valuable."
"The connection is compressed so we don't need a lot of resources to run it."
"Simplicity of the interface is a valuable feature."
"It has allowed us to centralize the software location so we don't have to update the software client on 70 computers."
"You have the opportunity to virtualize applications in different locations. Everything is in one pane or one window, which is quite good."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable feature is policy-driven control of the devices."
"The solution has very good documentation."
"AirWatch has one of the best User Interfaces and it's quite easy to figure out where particular items are within the menu system."
"The feature with the highest rating for me is its employee management. I can also praise how versatile it is in terms of operating systems. It has good support for multiple operating systems and can easily manage them all. Not just that, but it can also support any kind of tool that can be run on all these operating systems."
"It is a stable solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The platform makes the mobile device management process straightforward to handle."
"The product has fully automated features that help people do tasks easily."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"The features are good."
"The product is really easy to use."
"The product works well."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"The performance is good."
"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."
"It needs Windows scaling on Android/iOS devices. At present, the concept of delivering apps to Android and iOS devices is appealing, but the reality is the screen size on these devices is so small that, unless there is some scaling option, it is not really usable."
"Improvement is needed in performance monitoring of the client's endpoint, and automatic re-connection of the client in the event of circuit disruptions (this works well generally but can present challenges)."
"The customization of the web interface could possibly use some improvement. Little things, like being able to place a background image instead of just choosing from a palette of colors, would be nice."
"If the solution crashes, then all the customers connected through that agent, lose their session."
"Opening a ticket should be available from the actual RAS console. It is cumbersome to go to a portal, hunt around for five minutes for a link to open a ticket, answer questions meant to direct you towards FAQs instead of live support, then fill out information (license #, version #, etc.) which could more easily be supplied by sending a ticket straight from the console with all of that information automatically specified."
"HALB is not stable in our environment. When running two HALBs we have stability problems, so we use an active one and a passive for backup. Also, it would be nice to implement an upgrade of the environment without having to stop the servers. As it is, this must be done during off-hours."
"We have had significant, ongoing issues with printing. It would be great to have a best practice for dealing with printing that we can offer to our customers."
"We would like to be able to re-label the OTP (One Time Password) popup so our users can easily recognize that they are to put in their DUO code on that line. Most users see OTP and ask what that is."
"We'd like to see a better connection to Microsoft Azure and a better connection with Check Point."
"I prefer to work with Jamf Pro because it is more specific to working with the iPad features."
"The mobile device repository is somewhat difficult to manage with a large user base."
"The initial setup should be simplified."
"We're unhappy with the quality of support we get for it. We're unhappy with how upgrades occur, so we are migrating away from it. We have an on-premise AirWatch solution and for us to do upgrades we have to call AirWatch to be able to perform the upgrades. They're busy, and scheduling it is not timely enough for us."
"When we had some issues, the support did not respond quickly, and they did not provide a solution."
"Feature-wise, it is fine, but its pricing could be better, given that Microsoft is on a bundling spree. AirWatch would benefit from reducing the license pricing per user per month."
"They need a more flexible pricing model."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"The price should be reduced."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"Its price could be better."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
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