Item: VMware Salt
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vRealize Automation, with SaltStack Config

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Right now SaltStack & SaltStack SecOps are being used within multiple departments. We have been using them to manage a large fleet of systems at scale. We are using them both as an Event Engine/Configuration management system as well as a tool for governance and vulnerabilities. It works very well for both uses.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Event engine/configuration.
Vulnerability reporting.
Compliance.

Cons

It's growing fast, so stability.

Return on Investment

It has allowed my team to be able to manage large scale systems.
It has allowed us to have a central viewpoint on the health of our systems.

Alternatives Considered

Puppet Enterprise (formerly Puppet Data Center Automation)

SaltStack is a newer product, so it learned some of the mistakes that Puppet made. It truly is a system that can respond to events as well as configure systems.

Key Insights

Do you think VMware Salt delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VMware Salt's feature set?

Yes

Did VMware Salt live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VMware Salt go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VMware Salt again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

SaltStack is good if you want to be able to proactively respond to events, manage systems at scale, or to ensure compliance or search for vulnerabilities within your infrastructure. It allows you to control a wide range of systems, even beyond Linux hosts.

VMware vRealize Automation, with SaltStack Config Support

Support Rating

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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SaltStack doesn't make me feel Salty.

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