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."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"Horizon View provides virtual desktops on demand."
"I find the product to be quite stable...It is a scalable solution...The documentation of VMware Horizon View is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is that VMware Horizon is easy to setup."
"The most valuable features are Instant Clones and AppStacks."
"I like that it updates quickly and allows users to have virtual desktops."
"The embedded features of the solution are valuable."
"I appreciate how simple and straightforward the operation of VMware Horizon View is."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"The system integration also needs some improvement."
"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."
"We would like to see better performance with the product."
"The tool is not future-proof anymore."
"The product's initial setup process could be easier."
"The initial setup was complex, and you need system experience to walk through it."
"The initial setup was not difficult but there is room for improvement."
"Considering the tool's weaknesses, the product probably has scope for some improvement in the context of how the applications or Linux operating systems are delivered using VMware Horizon View."
Earn 20 points
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 19th 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 Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS).
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