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 endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"For the price, the features included with Microsoft are appealing."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"It's easy to manage."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"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 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."
"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 orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"Technical support is not that great."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Web UI."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"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."
"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."
SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 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 VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack.
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