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 works on Microsoft servers."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is managing the remote desktop end user or remote server."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"The product is very easy to install."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is not the easiest. You need to have a certain understanding of how Microsoft is provisioning the solution to be able to set it up and use it."
"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."
"The biggest reason we don't use the solution for our company's clients is the solution's prices."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"The stability could be improved."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
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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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