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 most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is it's incredibly simple to configure and execute changes in bulk, allowing for seamless deployment. With this solution, you can easily track the status of all modifications and send them with ease, making it a comprehensive and efficient solution for any necessary adjustments."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"The solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The deployment is easy."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"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."
"The TSM component could be improved."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"In terms of the monitoring, the timeframe it takes to actually report back on the compliance of a device after it has been patched is a bit too long."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"SCCM should strive to enhance the accuracy of its reporting functions in order to avoid any issues with incorrect or inaccurate data."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"The solution should add other hypervisors so things like hover wizards can be automated."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th 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), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and IBM Turbonomic.
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