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."The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"It is a comprehensive security solution that not only controls access to enterprise resources but also tracks and prevents unauthorized access, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and preventing potential data loss scenarios."
"It supports end-users who tend to lock their devices quite frequently. Its conditional access policy helps us keep the users logged into their devices."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"We can manage and standardize security across your environment, identify problems, receive alerts, and so on. That's its purpose, and that's also why it's so good."
"It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
"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."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"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."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"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."
"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 product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"I have found the solution scales well."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"I'm still playing around with it and haven't had any issues with the product yet, but support can definitely be improved."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"It is difficult to set up."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Web UI."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
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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