We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"I like that it works. In most cases, it's predictable. You know what you get."
"The product saves time."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The performance depends on connectivity."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having graphical acceleration."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. 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 Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Player report.
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