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    HPE Morpheus

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    HPE Morpheus is a hybrid cloud management platform (CMP) and orchestration engine designed to provide a unified control plane for heterogeneous IT environments. The solution automates the application lifecycle by bridging on-premises infrastructure, such as VMware and Nutanix, with public cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.N/A

    Salt

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/AVMware Salt is an Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management platform that provisions, configures, deploys, and manages infrastructure components at scale. The solution utilizes an event-driven automation engine to enforce compliant software states across virtual machines, servers, containers, and network devices. The VMware Salt solution is comprised of software components from both VMware and the open-source Salt Project While the Salt Masters and Salt Minions are a part of the open…N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HPE MorpheusSalt
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of HPE Morpheus and VMware Salt
    Feature
    HPE Morpheus
    9.1
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    VMware Salt
    -
    Ratings
    Cloud Management Security8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Systems Integration9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE MorpheusSalt
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HPE MorpheusSalt
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Morpheus is well suited for those who want to have a management pane of glass that will allow you to see what you are consuming and how you are consuming it. It also ties into many other types of software and the development team seems to be constantly improving the product. That lends it to being a bit complicated. If you want something easy to set up, this isn't your product.
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    Broadcom
    SaltStack is a very well architected toolset and framework for reliably managing distributed systems' complexity at varied scale. If the diversity of kind or number of assets is low, or the dependencies are bounded and simple, it might be overkill. Realization that you need SaltStack might come in the form of other tools, scripts, or jobs whose code has become difficult, unreliable, or unmaintainable. Rather than a native from-scratch SaltStack design, be aware that SaltStack can be added on to tools like Docker or Chef and optionally factor those tools out or other tools into the mix.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Copious native 3rd party integrations.
    • Ties into multiple public and private clouds for single management plane.
    • True multi-tenancy.
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    Broadcom
    • Targeting is easy and yet extremely granular - I can target machines by name, role, operating system, init system, distro, regex, or any combination of the above.
    • Abstraction of OS, package manager and package details is far advanced beyond any other CRM I have seen. The ability to set one configuration for a package across multiple distros, and have it apply correctly no matter the distrospecific naming convention or package installation procedure, is amazing.
    • Abstraction of environments is similarly valuable - I can set a firewall rule to allow ssh from "management", and have that be defined as a specific IP range per dev, test, and prod.
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • More dashboard/visualization capabilities
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    Broadcom
    • Managing network hardware should be more native and easy
    • SaltStack should buffer jobs and, when a client returns, make sure it is executed proberly
    • SaltStack should provide basic pillar and states structures to help get newbies started
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    Support Rating
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have always been able to reach the support organization at Morpheus on the rare event we needed them. They have been nothing but helpful.
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    Broadcom
    We haven't had to spend a lot of time talking to support, and we've only had one issue, which, when dealing with other vendors is actually not that bad of an experience.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We previously were using VRA. VRA, while some of the new versions look interesting is hard for both administration as well as end user consumption.
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    Broadcom
    We moved to SaltStack from Puppet about 3 years ago. Puppet just has too much of a learning curve and we inherited it from an old IT regime. We wanted something we could start fresh with. Our team has never looked back. SaltStack is so much easier for us to use and maintain.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Excellent monitoring tool
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    Broadcom
    • We manage two complex highly available self-healing (all infrastructure and systems) environments using SaltStack. Only one person is needed to run SaltStack. That is a HUGE return on investment.
    • Building tooling on top of SaltStack has allowed us to share administrative abilities by role - e.g. employee X can deploy software Y. No need to call a sysadmin and etc.
    • Recovery from problems, or time to stand-up new systems is now counted in minutes (usually under eight) rather than hours. This is a strategic advantage for rolling out new services.
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    Screenshot of Morpheus makes it easy to see all your vital information in a single pane of glass, including provisioning and monitoring.Product screenshotProduct screenshotProduct screenshotProduct screenshot