We performed a comparison between Red Hat Satellite 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."Based on my experience, I find Intune very flexible for managing Windows devices. We can use scripting, and we can make use of the self-service portal or the company portal to publish some of the applications for Windows."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"It's easy to manage."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to process patching and updates completely offline without an internet connection."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"Previously, we were using one server to update from a different repository over the HTTP. We had to manually manage the updates on the repository server. Satellite made the process easier."
"vCenter is very easy to use if you have good skills. It takes a little time to configure everything. It is template-based, so you click, click, and then reboot. It takes 15 minutes."
"The technical support services are good."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"The most valuable features that VMware's vCenter Configuration Manager have, when compared with other solutions, are their disaster recovery and business connectivity capabilities."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"It is a stable solution."
"vCenter alone is enough for me because vCenter is a cluster environment and cluster solution for virtualization environments."
"There are a lot of features, but I've found vMotion and VRS most valuable."
"They should improve its compatibility with other operating systems such as iOS and Linux. It supports Linux but they still need to work on the iOS part."
"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."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"Having a dedicated configuration server that assists in modifying the configuration service, and creating personalized structures, interfaces, and web services could enhance usability."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"Intune has limited integration with non-Microsoft solutions."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"I would like to see the scalability, user interface, and reporting features improved and for the solution to be simplified. Instead of having complex engineering, it should be simple for the user."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
"It should basically include a complete slew of system management and monitoring tools such as Nagios. It should be a single pane of glass that gives us a complete solution. It is a good solution, but it is missing a few important things. We're using Capsule for DMVs on other secured zones. Capsule is a part of Satellite to be a proxy of sorts."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"The documentation could be better."
"The licensing model has shifted from socket-based to core-based licensing, resulting in increased customer costs. Moreover, if a customer utilizes software like VMware, which integrates seamlessly with ESXi, it becomes even more challenging to consider replacing ESXi. Hence, many customers, particularly in India, are actively exploring alternatives."
"Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper."
"Their licensing needs to be improved."
"There could be an option for clients to manage the tool as well."
"The pricing and security could be improved."
"The price could be reduced."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Configuration Manager's reporting could be better. I need to use a third-party reporting solution to get the details. They could add reporting features similar to RVTools."
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Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". 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 Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix. See our Red Hat Satellite vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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