We performed a comparison between Puppet Enterprise 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."For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The most valuable features are the ones that make sure that the deployment is of a standard operating system and the Zero Touch deployment, which is very useful. This allows users to have an out of box experience."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"For the price, the features included with Microsoft are appealing."
"The technical support of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"The versatility is great."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"Sometimes, customers compare it with AirWatch, but the concept of Intune is different from other solutions. It's an application management app. It gets a bit difficult to explain it to customers, but it's not a product limitation. It takes a presale document or presentation to explain it to customers."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"From a new user's perspective, it may be a little overwhelming because there are quite a few things to look at in the console, however, once you are sort of acclimated and are familiar with your core functions, it's fairly simple and straightforward."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"vCloud Director isn't cheap."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"vCloud Director should include better billing options for businesses like mine or more options for customers to see their usage and billing situation regarding the usage of vCloud Director."
Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack.
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