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OpenText Cloud Management vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Cloud Management
Ranking in Cloud Management
52nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Automation
Ranking in Cloud Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
172
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (10th), Network Automation (7th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (27th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Cloud Management is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Automation is 5.5%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Automation5.5%
OpenText Cloud Management0.7%
Other93.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user368175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Designer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It helps us speed up the development process. It's highly complex in setting up correctly.
The most valuable feature of Codar is the ability to provide us with faster application releases It's helped us with moving away from doing everything manually and from a siloed way of thinking. Previously, it would take four months to make a small change in our application. Codar helps us speed…
VasilisGiannitsiotis - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT at ITSolutions
Automation has streamlined complex financial workflows but still needs more intuitive orchestration
Something to improve in VMware Aria Automation would be related to VCF 9, as I do not know what it is trying to bring because they exposed it as the solution of everything. So VCF 9 will bring VCF Automation and VCF Operations, the new product line of VMware. I have not seen what this brings or what else it includes. Maybe in the area of vRealize Orchestrator, this would be beneficial because VRO can do everything. Perhaps a more user-friendly way to use that tool would be helpful because the possibilities there are endless. I am looking for more user-friendly navigation in VMware Aria Automation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Codar is the ability to provide us with faster application releases."
"The most valuable features are that it's multi-tenant and the ability for scale."
"It's scalable; as the needs of the university grow, it's growing with us."
"The big benefit is it will spin up VMs quickly so it would take about 13 to 15 minutes to deploy a virtual machine. Whereas, if I were doing it based on an email from users who are requesting VMs, it might take time for me to hear back from them. This could be anywhere from an hour to a day."
"It is probably 90 percent quicker to get something out the door than it was before. For developers, depending on who is building VMs for them, sometimes they request anywhere from 20 to 100. Now, we can deploy them in a matter of an hour, where previously it might have taken me three days to deploy out 100 VMs."
"We use it to deploy databases and testing environments. It spins up quickly and also break down fast."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable, as with a click of a button we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware, and apply patches, which are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Aria Automation is the versatile automation and deployments."
"The self service portal: People don't have to come to us to request something. They can just go fill out a form. Within 30 minutes, they have what they requested."
 

Cons

"Codar works well enough, but it's highly complex in setting up correctly."
"The integration is a bit tight. I need the right package to use it properly. The new automation processes for VMware are messy, and support could be better."
"Each new version seems to bring a new set of bugs to the table and upgrading is risky, especially for a tool at the core of the operations and infrastructure."
"VMware needs to make it to where it is not as custom. Right now, you spend a lot of time making the services work. In order to get it up and running initially, that takes time."
"The infrastructure part and VM reconfigure need improvement so that the end user can smoothly perform all the tasks which they are directly performing on the endpoints."
"There are some issues with stability. We discovered some bugs and we constantly have to work with VMware to figure out a way to fix them."
"Sometimes it feels like there are more moving parts than is necessary, and maybe something simpler would do."
"I would like to see more out-of-the-box blueprints and workflows for the rest of VMware's products and its portfolio."
"With the workflow aspect, which has manual intervention, a policy needs to be approved by somebody. There could be better management of that piece with better templates. It is like a workflow engine, but does not have enough example templates to do certain things. A lot of people waste a lot of time trying to figure out the same thing, and everybody is trying to figure out the same thing, e.g., how to make a MySQL cluster in a Windows environment?"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"A simplified version for small businesses would be good."
"Better pricing is always handy, but I feel it's at the right price point."
"So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
"They should provide one license for all the sub-products."
"There is confusion between licensing levels. There are three different licensed versions of vRealize Automation, and there are different things which can happen in each of them."
"I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with ten being very expensive."
"It is an expensive product. After VMware's acquisition by Broadcom, there was a rise in the price of VMware Aria Automation."
"Customers say this solution is costlier compared to its competitors."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise131
 

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What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...
Is there any way to try VMware Aria Automation for free?
When it comes to VMware Aria Automation, you have three choices for free runs: Hands-on Lab (HOL) Advanced lab A free trial I cannot describe in detail the second and third options as my company ...
Which sectors can benefit the most from VMware Aria Automation?
I was looking at VMware Aria Automation case studies recently and I got the impression that three main kinds of companies were using it most often: Social organizations Financial institutions and ...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management X, Micro Focus HCM, Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management, Codar
VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite, SaltStack
 

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Sample Customers

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Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual
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