We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Microsoft, ServiceNow and others in Server Monitoring."Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"It works well for the endpoints for the customer I'm consulting. It has a bunch of knobs, and you can tune it to do lots of things."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the availability of being able to manage the Microsoft estate. It handles many areas, such as asset management and tracking."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"With the right administrator, application deployment can do wonders."
"Technical support was helpful and responsive."
"It's also absolutely easy and intuitive. It uses the same basic layout as the rest of the product suite so it's really easy to navigate, find your way around between the tabs and the areas."
"The product is stable."
"The feature of automated balancing which implemented between two data centers solely for the purpose of a recovery plan is valuable."
"vRA is user-friendly. It has the same layout and walk-through GUI, similar to other VMware products."
"The extensibility of the solution when it comes to writing your own ABX actions is a valuable feature. You can write it in PowerShell, JavaScript, or Python, which is great."
"vRA helps automate deployment for developers. We do a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment so it will suit each of our customers. So, we have different business units who have their own templates."
"It has integration with the rest of VMware solutions."
"The preset policies and templates are useful. I would say that vRA is one of the best solutions we have. The CI/CD features also look helpful even though we aren't using them at the moment. We plan to get more involved and train our customers as much as possible."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
"The solution can be improved with the addition of a mobile device manager."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"Management of Linux devices could be improved."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"The solution is on-premises. The cloud version of the product, if a person needs to be on the cloud, would be InTune, which already exists as an option. SCCM doesn't need to offer cloud features for this reason."
"On some hardware, we'd like an easier way to get peripherals attached."
"Deploying and configuring the solution takes a lot of time."
"The initial setup was complex from beginning to delivery. The current version is a bit more complex than version 7 to deploy."
"The stability on the 6.2 version is very bad. It crashes. VMware tech support knows the IIS component is a bit buggy."
"In terms of additional features, I would like it to be able to poll my vCenter infrastructure more rapidly and adapt to changes quickly. It should alert me and let me know when there are broken components, as a result of underlying infrastructure changes. It needs to be more stringent."
"VMware should go the way of vROps, with everything in one machine, the ability to scale out, and a more distributed environment instead of having the usual centralized SQL database."
"It has a learning curve."
"We upgraded twice. The last upgrade was a bit problematic."
"They should concentrate on navigation and service improvements."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Microsoft Intune and Tanium, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and CloudStack.
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