We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"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."
"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."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"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 areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"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."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Its configuration process could be better."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.
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