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 solution is highly scalable."
"The main, clear valuable feature is updating the latest, patches and updates from Windows. This is the main feature we really utilize a lot."
"It's a stable product."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"The product is useful for patch management."
"It is a very good solution. It has a good interface and is easy to use. On top of that, it is very reliable in terms of distribution as well as getting the report."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The self-service portal is the most valuable. We are acting as a service provider, so our customers can take care of their virtual data centers with the self-service portal. Therefore, we don't need staff for it."
"I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"This solution has helped us make money and provision our clients faster."
"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"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."
"The App to upgrades to the server needs to be improved."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"The solution should be more compatible with different versions of Linux."
"Marketing: Our management doesn't understand that there is a piece of software which helps them automate and manage the entire network, as far as operating systems on computers."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"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."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director 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 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, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and ServiceNow IT Operations Management.
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