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."
"It has improved our business because now we can run applications and it's easier for our students to do their exams."
"The most valuable features are Instant Clones and AppStacks."
"Instant Clone instantly creates another VM with a Delta disk, which is just the VMware backend. This helps with scalability and management."
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"VMware Horizon View is easy to configure and deploy."
"This product works quickly and is reliable."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution has been security."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
"VMware Horizon View can improve by making it easier to use for first-time users. You should learn the whole concept of VMware to be able to use it."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see better support for application virtualization."
"In VMware Horizon View, app volume is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 was not difficult but there is room for improvement."
"The tool is not future-proof anymore."
"The product's initial setup process could be easier."
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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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