We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."It has helped with compliance. It has helped to ensure that devices comply with the organization's policy. If they are not compliant and secure, they cannot access the resources."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"The ability to (somewhat) manage full Windows 10 computers including EXE-based or MSI-based application deployments using Azure Active Directory as Identity."
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
"It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations."
"Being a game-changer in configuration management software is what has made Ansible so popular and widespread. Much of IT is based on SSH direct connectivity with a need for running infrastructure in an agentless way, and that has been a big plus. SSH has become a great security standard for managing servers. The whole thing has really become an out-of-the-box solution for managing a Unix estate."
"The automation manager is very good."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"This solution has helped us make money and provision our clients faster."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"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."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The pricing can be expensive if you are not combining it with other products."
"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"Onboarding of endpoint devices is not straightforward. The onboarding process was a little heavier than I thought it would be. That's the key improvement area. Obviously, the more control you have over the devices, the better it is."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"There are some issues using the solution with macOS and iOS, and it offers limited granular control with them. Intune works better on Windows and Android."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"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."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"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."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula.
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