We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."The Autopilot feature is fantastic. It is a Microsoft product, so it deals best with Microsoft operating systems, but it can integrate with iOS, Mac OS, Linux, and Android."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."
"There is a single pane of glass for user access and a single sign-on facility for the user. If you have already logged in to Microsoft Azure or on-premises, you can redirect directly to Microsoft Endpoint Manager, monitor all your security threats, and analyze the data associated with the application in a single, unified way."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The performance of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The features I found most valuable in Intune are its user visibility and troubleshooting options."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"I like the inventory management. It's a very nice, simple, concise way to keep all that data together. And the API allows us to use it even for things that are not Ansible."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"The UI also needs improvements because it is complex for end-users. We have had feedback from a few users in our organization who found the UI is not feasible for tracking and analyzing all the processes and monitoring all the devices."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in integration and security as well."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not the best at server provisioning. Terraform is better."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"Sometimes, there is a disconnection that happens between vCloud Director and its underlying VMware vCenter, where the actions are supposed to be taking place, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"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."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula.
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