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."The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is stable and reliable."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The solution now includes a multi-screen feature which is great."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The documentation is very good."
"The stability must be improved."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"The solution should introduce a chat feature for end users."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"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 technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
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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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