We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage and standardize security across your environment, identify problems, receive alerts, and so on. That's its purpose, and that's also why it's so good."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"It's easy to deploy a configuration or policy to a system, especially when you don't have Azure AD. Now we are talking to all these small and medium-sized customers who don't necessarily have an on-premise Windows Active Directory. If they have invested in Office 365 Premium, this functionality becomes available to them."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"The solution is stable."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"With BMC, we even configured applications, like IE or things that were Java-related. When we scheduled the jobs, it worked fine. It saved us time and there was no need for resources to monitor them."
"vCenter has some good user experience, and the initial setup is straightforward."
"The interface is very user-friendly and the solution is simple to use."
"Configuration Manager simplifies management. Cloning via live migration is a useful feature."
"Beneficial patch management and template features."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a mature solution with high quality."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a very good product, it works well."
"The most valuable feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the automated processes."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"Microsoft needs to enhance device-level security, as sometimes when using Microsoft Intune, the device's operating system becomes stuck and requires a full uninstall to remove the Intune bug."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"I would like the ability to install the agent on devices from suppliers, which would enable us to implement a zero-trust strategy for guest devices."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"The installation is very easy. However, to be able to configure it you will need special knowledge, such as training or self-studies to have a proper level of security. There are many settings one has to understand before being able to implement Microsoft Intune."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"The pricing and security could be improved."
"The customer service and support are not as good as that of other solutions. It is not very fast."
"It is not so user-friendly that you can just start the host and everything works."
"We would like to improve the UI interface and customer experience in vCenter Configuration Manager. We need a speed-based system, which is methodology checked. The migration functions, from one hardware to another and the nodes must be a partner of four nodes, which acts as a weakness. They should have advanced training and course material for vCenter solutions."
"The technical support is not as responsive as it could be. They are slow to respond to our issues with a resolution. There should be online chat support added."
"Acquiring certifications often require extensive training and successfully passing an exam, which can be costly and time-consuming, particularly if you already possess experience in the domain. As a result, this can increase the overall cost of obtaining certification and may present a challenge that requires addressing."
"SAP CRM could improve by adding additional automation features."
"I would like there to be support for this solution in Iran."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix and Red Hat Satellite. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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