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."Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"If you need only to load a specific profile and you don't have deep security functionalities, et cetera, Intune is very nice and good."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"It is a stable solution."
"We have found the solution is capable of scaling."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"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 valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The deployment is easy."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"They need to integrate more with security options."
"It would be beneficial to have a more straightforward understanding of Intune's capabilities, presented in a simplified manner."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"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."
"Web UI."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"It is difficult to set up."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"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."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 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 Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and ServiceNow, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack.
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