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."Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"The synchronization of Intune with other Microsoft solutions is a valuable feature."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"If the product works, remote access will be a benefit. To this point we have not had reason to have confidence in achieving that access."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"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."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"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."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"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 ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it makes it to manage the VM."
"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."
"The solution's ability to template and easily implement are the most valuable features. It offers good replication as well."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
"The backup and recovery times are very quick."
"The security features should be improved."
"Microsoft Intune has a latency response time issue. The latency has room for improvement."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"The configuration and pricing can be improved."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"Web UI."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"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."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."
"Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration."
"The price of this product is high and could be improved."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"I would like to see more automation added in the future."
"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
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, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Automic Workload Automation, 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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