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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) (28th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Cloud Management is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Automation is 5.3%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Automation5.3%
OpenText Cloud Management0.7%
Other94.0%
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 automation of the redundant tasks and the implementation of ServiceNow are huge for us, as we are a cloud provider to the campus."
"Instead of only deploying templates, we can deploy blueprints which are easier on day-to-day operations."
"One of the most valuable features is lifecycle management. It allows my teams to create, manage, and retire all of our infrastructure objects in the data center."
"Fast provisioning and integration with public cloud."
"It’s very helpful for us to have this product; we already gained the benefits after installation and configuration."
"It's extremely convenient to be able to spin something up and be able to work on other things, because it's already done it, making my workload lighter."
"There are a lot of different benefits with this product, because there are a lot of things that we're trying to automate."
"We haven't hit any limits yet, scalability is good."
 

Cons

"Codar works well enough, but it's highly complex in setting up correctly."
"Salt does not support performing remote actions that require a sudo password with Salt SSH (agentless Salt execution)."
"The stability is okay, but could be improved. We sometimes receive strange errors, which can only be solved with specialists."
"Something as simple as formatting the catalog in a different way would be helpful because there is no option for doing so. A lot of the contents for the virtual machine, blueprints that you can request, are hidden from view and there's no way to change the view."
"Multitenancy management is a little bit difficult to do, so it is an area that can be improved."
"I would like to see more integration to do things like DR, from a court perspective."
"The high price of the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It is too broad scale and complicated. It takes too many clicks to do things."
"From that perspective, technical support has not done very well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"VMware Aria Automation is expensive."
"The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market."
"The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market."
"The solution is pretty expensive but provides good workload management."
"vRealize automation really should be a front door to the whole VMware suite of products."
"The tool is expensive since it is an enterprise product."
"From a budget point of view, the pricing is a bit on the higher side."
"We do plan to see ROI with any new implementation of new technologies being implemented within our environment."
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Top Industries

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

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Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise131
 

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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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