We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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 initial setup is not complex."
"It's easy to deploy a configuration or policy to a system, especially when you don't have Azure AD. Now we are talking to all these small and medium-sized customers who don't necessarily have an on-premise Windows Active Directory. If they have invested in Office 365 Premium, this functionality becomes available to them."
"The biggest benefits of Intune are the ability to push changes and the added security. When we moved forward with Defender, we onboarded all those machines automatically. That helps dramatically. For a while, we were left with machines that weren't protected. We could see where people had done things they shouldn't have done, and Defender saved our skins a few times. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened enough that it made us glad we made that decision."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"vCloud Director works and makes my life easier. Its self-service capabilities allow us to give resources to our customers. They can spin up as many or as few machines as they like, and it works."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"Intune has limited integration with non-Microsoft solutions."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"We only have major classifications for iOS and Android, but there are different brands that have different cycles of updates. If they can fine-tune it to make it more brand-specific, that would be even better."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack.
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