We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"The Asset Management and Auto Pilot are valuable features."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"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."
"The aspects I find most valuable are the managing the data and applications. I can also restrict the users to install any applications. I can also wipe the data if the phone was missplaced or stolen. These are the basics for me."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"Having the Dashboard from an admin point of view, and seeing how all the projects and all the jobs lay out, is helpful."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don’t need an agent for it to work."
"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ability to manage all of our environments allowing us to have better functionality and high availability."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a stable solution that is very easy to manage and deploy."
"The online configuration, especially in the latest version, is very good."
"vCenter has some good user experience, and the initial setup is straightforward."
"We can scale the solution as needed."
"The platform is straightforward and user friendly."
"I appreciate it because it's very easy to set up and configure new disks and servers."
"There are a lot of useful features, such as DRS, ease of use, and many configuration options."
"There is improvement needed in integrating with the installed Office solutions versions, such as Office 2019. The Office 365 integrates without a problem."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"The documentation about the custom image setup could be better. Although Microsoft provides the steps to configure Intune or set up or deploy Intune, it doesn't have much information related to custom images. If you ask, "how can we deploy the custom image?" There is no information. The steps they mention ask you to connect to your on-premises environment or create your own image on the cloud itself once there is connectivity. But I needed to go to multiple websites to get all this information. I had to figure out how to upload the custom image if you want to use the on-premise custom image for Cloud PC. If you have the proper subscription, you must have the right access, like global admin or owner. Then you can add your custom image to that. There are no steps mentioned over there. Microsoft Intune doesn't have Chrome browser support. I would like to have that support because they will want it if we pitch the product to clients."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"The technical support could be improved."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"It needs better documentation."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"Ansible is great, but there are not many modules. You can do about 80% to 90% of things by using commands, but more modules should be added. We cannot do some of the things in Ansible. In Red Hat, we have the YUM package manager, and there are certain options that we can pass through YUM. To install the Docker Community Edition, I'll write the yum install docker-ce command, but because the Docker Community Edition is not compatible with RHEL 8, I will have to use the nobest option, such as yum install docker-ce --nobest. The nobest option installs the most stable version that can be installed on a particular system. In Ansible, the nobest option is not there. So, it needs some improvements in terms of options. There should be more options, keywords, and modules."
"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."
"The interface itself is not very user-friendly."
"If the solution could manage on-premises and cloud resources with the help of one tool, it would be an extra agent."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The pricing and security could be improved."
"The only challenge my company faces with the solution in relation to the customers is something that is directly related to the tool's pricing."
"The Self Service Interface is not very good and it needs improvement."
"The functions are not running in HTML5."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". 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". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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