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 product saves time."
"Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable part of RDS is that it allows you to work from any location and check the server through a VPN connection."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"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."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"Microsoft Desktop Services is stable but it takes up a lot of resources in the CPU. It's a bit heavier than some solutions."
"The only problems that you're going to have with the remote desktop are going to be firewall ports, security, and NLA, which is a net network level access control, or TLS transfer layer security or some other SSL-type of security."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
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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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