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."The most valuable features in Microsoft Intune for me are application deployment, Defender deployment, and asset management."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"It's really easy to access."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"It's easy to manage."
"With on-premises Active Directory, the main challenge was that we had no control when a user was working from home. We didn't know what exactly a user was doing and whether the AV was up to date or not. Intune provides better control of their machines."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"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."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The solution is stable."
"The online configuration, especially in the latest version, is very good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ability to manage all of our environments allowing us to have better functionality and high availability."
"The management of vCenter Configuration Manager can support the UI interface. It helps in monitoring, logging alert and performance, forecasting the system to provide services in the environment."
"This solution is good for individual storage."
"vCenter is very easy to use if you have good skills. It takes a little time to configure everything. It is template-based, so you click, click, and then reboot. It takes 15 minutes."
"It's a very nice solution for our needs."
"The clustering part and the load balancing part are most valuable."
"The product's initial setup process is very simple."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"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."
"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"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."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"I would like there to be support for this solution in Iran."
"I think the logging side should be improved because it's pretty difficult to keep up to date VMware and with vCenter."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in operating and managing cluster environments and maintenance. And hardware environment visibility."
"The reporting could be improved."
"The licensing model has shifted from socket-based to core-based licensing, resulting in increased customer costs. Moreover, if a customer utilizes software like VMware, which integrates seamlessly with ESXi, it becomes even more challenging to consider replacing ESXi. Hence, many customers, particularly in India, are actively exploring alternatives."
"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."
"The solution could be more integrated with the Microsoft environment."
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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 "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". 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, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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