We performed a comparison between SaltStack and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."Intune provides full visibility into all active mobile device users. If their devices are noncompliant with our security policies, I have the flexibility to update them remotely."
"It has a useful device management feature."
"Stable product that's easy to set up compared to other MDM products."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"It's very informative when there is an error. It allows us to backtrace where the error is and resolve that ourselves. It's a bit of a Swiss Army penknife. We find that it fixes most issues."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization. It is very handy for monitoring. VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"It should be simplified. I've worked with many different mobile device management solutions, and Intune is one of the more complex ones. It could be more simplified, and some of it is related to the wording that is being used, such as a configuration profile versus a policy. They really should have had different names to make it less confusing."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"Web UI."
"It is difficult to set up."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. SaltStack is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". SaltStack is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and ServiceNow, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack.
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