We performed a comparison between SaltStack and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"Easy to use."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"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."
"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."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one."
"It would be beneficial to have a more straightforward understanding of Intune's capabilities, presented in a simplified manner."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"Technical support is not that great."
"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."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"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"
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Web UI."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"I would like to see better performance."
"We encounter challenges related to the renewal of support subscriptions."
"I would like to see a greater ability to do mobile administration."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. SaltStack is rated 8.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. 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 vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and ServiceNow, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and Control-M.
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