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HPE OneSphere vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

HPE OneSphere
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (42nd)
vCenter Orchestrator
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

HPE OneSphere and vCenter Orchestrator aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. HPE OneSphere is designed for Cloud Management and holds a mindshare of 1.7%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
vCenter Orchestrator, on the other hand, focuses on Process Automation, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE OneSphere1.7%
VMware Aria Automation5.6%
VMware Aria Operations4.0%
Other88.7%
Cloud Management
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
vCenter Orchestrator0.9%
Camunda13.2%
Pega Platform5.2%
Other80.7%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

it_user781113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Data Strategy
Worked right the first time out-of-the-box; we were provisioning to AWS within 10 minutes
Ironically, most of the features that we might have wanted to see were already introduced in the product announcement today, from what we saw in the beta, which was kind of cool. You can't come to market unless you have Azure support, and Azure was all over every slide we saw, so that was pretty cool. A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced. It is way too easy to provision a VM onto a public cloud, wide open to everybody. So, there are a couple of issues there. We are obviously going to talk with the product teams and the architects about some of those things; a handful of things here and there. Most of the things we were looking for were already included. Things that we had requested a month ago, we are now seeing them here: Azure Stack integration and the OneView integration. These were the things we were saying, "Hey, if these were there, it would be really cool. We could use this." All of a sudden, "Oh hey, guess what is going to be at launch?" I am very eager to get my hands on the next version of this product, and to see what may or may not be missing.
NB
Hybrid Cloud Engineer at RealPage
Boosts operational efficiency with flexible workflows and reliable cluster management
We currently use vCenter Orchestrator's pre-built workflow templates for our IT processes. The templates are flexible, allowing us to create and convert processes simply and manage patches. Regarding integration capabilities, we do not integrate any third-party tools. We exclusively use VMware products. The integration within the VMware infrastructure is limited to Single Sign-On (SSO). I have not created any workflows in vCenter Orchestrator as workflows are only used for change management. I have not encountered any drag and drop interface. The version control and logging features of vCenter Orchestrator have significantly improved the reliability of our automated processes, particularly during upgrades or patching to the cluster-wise. Previously, it would be done on a one-to-one cluster or one-to-one host basis, but now we only need to monitor it for upgrading or patching the entire cluster. I cannot comment on the pricing and licensing of vCenter Orchestrator as these aspects are managed by our onsite counterpart. Overall, I rate vCenter Orchestrator 8 out of 10. The rating reflects occasional delays in support response times and portal stability issues.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"OneSphere being a SaaS platform, you do not have to deal with those issues, it is in quickly and you can begin utilizing it right away."
"With all the time and investment in all the competitive products, still it makes them not even a competitor anymore, with how this works."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
"What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs."
"We can scale the solution."
"Snapshots and similar features were managed well."
"The solution is stable."
 

Cons

"We are looking to be able to set a hard budget for the workspaces or projects."
"A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
"I don't think that this product is very stable because, at the moment, I am not able to run workflows."
"The solution has a limited count of parallel executions, which can be a bottleneck for larger environments."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"The price of this product is high and could be improved."
"Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is a bit expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"My organization didn't have to pay extra for vCenter Orchestrator. It was already included, so it's basically free. Even VMware regular support is included."
"The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced."
"The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."
"We pay a yearly fee, based on our entries."
"My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."
"I rate the product price a seven to eight out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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Marketing Services Firm
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise20
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Orchestrator?
We're running a low-profile budget. This is not our main focus on investment technology, so we're trying to reduce costs due to the change from perpetual to subscription licenses.
What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?
For our environment, I do not see any areas of vCenter Orchestrator that could be improved or enhanced. We are currently satisfied with the orchestrator. If any improvements are needed, I will prov...
What is your primary use case for vCenter Orchestrator?
My usual use cases for vCenter Orchestrator involve managing all the ESXi hosts from the US, as we have almost 1200 to 1500 ESXi hosts.
 

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