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."Since the tool has a graphical user interface, it's easier for us to access the server."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"It's simple to set up."
"The technical support is good."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The installation is straightforward."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"It's easy to use."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"The stability must be improved."
"The solution is unsuitable for direct external internet connections. You must set up a VPN and password handling to use it."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"The product is not very scalable."
"I would like to see better fault and performance reporting in the GUI."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
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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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