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 most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"The improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"Great for desktop management, particularly when it comes to all the upgrades."
"Managing all operating systems in a single environment helped a lot in organizing and integrating it."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"VMware has a lot of experience in virtualization — they are the pioneers in virtualization."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The support from VMware is very good and they have amazing experts."
"It's centralized management, and you have access gateway to enter the the VMs from outside."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"The technical support offered by VMware is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In VMware Horizon View, app volume is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The integration could be improved."
"The solution is very expensive."
"VMware Horizon View needs to improve orchestration and integrate additional images. I would also like to see its statistics."
"VMware support is okay, but sometimes it's a little bit hit or miss trying to get somebody who knows what they're doing and talking about."
"The initial setup is a little complicated."
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 18th 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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