We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Microsoft, ServiceNow and others in Server Monitoring."The cloud account management is a valuable feature."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"This solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's user-friendly."
"Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"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."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The solution can be improved with the addition of a mobile device manager."
"They should improve their anti-malware policies like the SCEP policies. For instance, you can't have different policies for different servers, there is only one policy in all the servers, and everything is covered under that. For example, say you want to scan one group of servers on Saturday, and then you want to scan another group of servers on Sunday, you can't do that. You have to scan all your servers, a regular scan or a full scan, on the same day and at the same time. That's definitely one thing they need to resolve. In the next release, it would actually be nice if they included Apple products. It will also help if you can use Intune again. Their compliance reporting feature could also be better. They can maybe work a bit on that for patching now. It would be better if SCCM came with the functions of Right Click Tools built-in. If SCCM would have all those functions already built-in, we won't have to go and spend $5,000, just as an add-in from another company to get those functions."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."
"Its client interface should be more accessible, and the notifications should be more customizable from the console. It should be more user friendly and have some kind of customized notifications so that we can use it on the client side. These are the reasons why we restricted its use only for the server environment and didn't use it on the client side."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and Microsoft Intune, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and ServiceNow IT Operations Management.
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