TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA) vs. Red Hat Satellite

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AKACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA) is designed to save time and money by providing the user with a flexible and effective OS imaging and software deployment tool.N/A

    Red Hat Satellite

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat® Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed to keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux® environments and other Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently, with security, and compliant with various standards.N/A
    Pricing
    KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)Red Hat Satellite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)Red Hat Satellite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    User Ratings
    KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)Red Hat Satellite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)Red Hat Satellite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Quest Software
    It is most effective in Windows PC environments and doing mass Windows deployments across a wired LAN. It would not be suitable for small office/school environments or for environments with limited PC usage.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    What we really like, is the patching part, os usefulle and easy to manage. Something that we don't use, is the VM deployment from Satellite, since we have only 8 VCD licences and a 30-nodes VMWare cluster, it was pretty hard to manage on which physical node the VMs should run .
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Quest Software
    • Windows PC deployments.
    • Windows PC re-imaging.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • Patch Staging
    • Customized Software Repositories
    • Version Control of Repositories
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Quest Software
    • USMT had issues with successfully capturing user states.
    • MAC support, stopped supporting newer versions of MAC OS. No APFS support.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • Some things are confusing for new users of the platform
    • More dashboards
    • A more user friendly GUI
    Read full review
    Usability
    Quest Software
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    It is part of our daily job, without it, we will have to manually maintain a server with repos, update the repos, it will ask us a lot of time to prepare a new set of repos, and so on. Even if it is a bit tricky to use, and for a newcomer, it needs some time, we still love to use the tool, and we keep it up to date. Curerntly using v6.19.2
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Quest Software
    The majority of the support reps I talk to on the phone are quick to respond and very helpful. They will take their time helping you with any case for the SDA and have any issues with it. They will help you build new boot environments or deployments if you get stuck or have a problem.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Quest Software
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Not sure about this question, there a no other solutions that Satellites beside Foreman(free version without support) Are you talking about Red Hat in general ? If it is about RH, well, we like the support we have, all the tools available. We used to have a TAM, which as very interesting, but the new cost to have was way to high... so we deciced to let it go.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Quest Software
    • Primarily saves us time for maintaining our computer labs.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • We have been able to automate the update process to not require after-hours monitoring.
    • Centralizing updates has greatly reduced the overall time servers are down and processing their individual updates.
    • We are able to bring our own RPM packages in and stage them in the same deployment model as official Red Hat packages.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots