We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Intune device restriction policies enable me to enforce limitations on the device, like blocking the mobile camera or restricting the employees from using and inserting USB devices, including thumb drives and flash drives."
"For the price, the features included with Microsoft are appealing."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"This product has helped us because we can now do many tasks at once. Rather than copy one file to one device, we can do an entire group at one time."
"It is helpful if you schedule daily or weekly archiving for your config groups. Then, you can go by what are in those configuration groups, before and after, if you make changes. So, configuration management is really helpful in network management."
"It has the best automation features."
"Depending on who's looking at the data, they need to configure that data in different ways, and the dashboards help us to do that better than what was previously available."
"The product's initial setup process is very simple."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is pretty simple."
"This solution is good for individual storage."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"My primary use case is for migration"
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"My experience managing virtual environments using vCenter Configuration Manager has been quite smooth. Over time, I've observed that there's been a significant local competency built around the product, especially in India, where ESXi and VMware dominate the market. It's evident that vCenter Configuration Center is the preferred management tool in this context, and it's relatively easy to find expertise in the market."
"We can scale the solution as needed."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."
"The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"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."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."
"I would like to see more device supported features, mostly on the new brands and models coming in. For any new version or model, it should be supported by the tool, especially the newest versions. For example, the newest devices, like Aruba Wireless, and routers need support from the tool."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"It is tedious to scale the solution."
"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."
"I'd like to be able to get more devices into compliance with standards, but that means running additional rule sets and that takes time."
"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."
"Some of the migrations are difficult to manage since the solution is not compatible with a few of the operating systems, which poses a challenge during the physical to virtual migration process."
"Many major industry players like VMware, Microsoft, and Oracle often fall short in software coding and the smooth release of new versions."
"There could be an option for clients to manage the tool as well."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Not very user friendly, too many configurations."
"The functions are not running in HTML5."
"SAP CRM could improve by adding additional automation features."
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BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 18th in Configuration Management with 10 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Network Automation writes "Helps with patching, OS upgrade, and security vulnerability management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, VMware NSX and OpenText Network Automation, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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