OpenNebula vs OpenText Cloud Service Automation comparison

OpenNebula and OpenText are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. OpenNebula is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while OpenText is ranked #40. OpenNebula holds a 2.5% mindshare in CM, compared to OpenText’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenNebula users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

OpenText Cloud Service Automation and OpenNebula are competing products in the cloud service automation market. OpenNebula is often seen as having the upper hand due to its robust feature set that justifies its price, while satisfaction with pricing and customer support leans towards OpenText Cloud Service Automation.

Features: OpenText Cloud Service Automation offers strong integration capabilities and a comprehensive management console for complex enterprise environments. OpenNebula supports hybrid and multi-cloud setups, provides enhanced scalability options, and offers efficient resource management.

Room for Improvement: OpenText could improve in customizing solutions to specific needs, enhancing user experience, and simplifying scalability. OpenNebula would benefit from refining its documentation, expanding community support, and improving its initial setup complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenNebula offers a flexible deployment model with optimized solutions for hybrid cloud environments and responsive customer service. OpenText Cloud Service Automation focuses on centralized management, often requiring more effort for solution customization.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Cloud Service Automation offers competitive pricing with a lower initial investment. OpenNebula, despite higher setup costs, delivers better ROI through its comprehensive feature set and scalability.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenNebula vs. OpenText Cloud Service Automation Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

OpenNebula

Ranking in Cloud Management

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Cloud Service Auto...

Ranking in Cloud Management

40th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenNebula is 2.5%, down from 8.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Cloud Service Automation is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenNebula	2.5%
OpenText Cloud Service Automation	1.2%
Other	96.3%

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support

The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.

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SunpritSingh

Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

A user friendly solution that makes it easy to submit and view jobs

The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user-friendly the solution is. Traditionally, when we use a mainframe system to submit jobs, we have to see the spool or any error we might get in the spool. It is very command-based and uses a green screen, which is not user-friendly. Micro Focus enterprise makes it easy to submit and view jobs. We just have to log into the particular portal, go to the catalog and view any files we want. The same can be said about submitting jobs. We know what JCL we want to submit, give it the path, and then submit it with no command required. It is very user-friendly.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."

"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."

"OpenNebula is lightweight, stable, and easy to customize."

"I also like the ability to build custom functions. I can define a function where I have two types of views and configure the dependencies. The virtual data centers concept allows me to define users. If a user wants to join certain kinds of machines, the host and the other user won't see them. It gives me the flexibility to define multiple views and data centers in one place."

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."

"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."

"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage, is easy to use, has a good UI, and is very scalable."

"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."

More OpenNebula pros

"Scalability is the most valuable feature to us."

"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."

"The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."

"These products let us integrate multiple tools together and help to automate the processes by cutting down time and effort through the modules and reusable contents."

"The ability to tie the pieces together, supporting multiple providers across both HPE and non-HPE products, is crucial in a heterogeneous environment composed of many different commercial and in-house developed components."

"We really look at infrastructure as a service as the major trend in IT, at least for a service provider like us, for the next 3 to 4 years, so we really want to have a precise, clearly defined, but very dynamic and flexible private cloud where we can easily provision and deploy infrastructure as a service to our end customers."

"The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."

Cons

"They should add more features like object storage."

"Template management also needs improvement in OpenNebula because it's inferior right now."

"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."

"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."

"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."

"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."

"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."

"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."

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"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."

"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."

"I’d like to see better monitoring visibility. We have to rely on HPE Technical Services to tell us when those challenges and problems occur."

"Deployment has been extremely painful for the production environment. This was mostly due to the decision to use our internal Microsoft-based Certificate Authority (CA)."

"I haven't found very user friendly things, some are a little tricky."

"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."

"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."

"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

"OpenText Cloud Service Automation's pricing is average."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

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Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with OpenNebula?

The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement. Another area for improvement is the integration with hardware to manage the lower layer of the n...

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What is your primary use case for OpenNebula?

Previously, we were using VMware, but recently, we've started using OpenNebula for cloud management. As a big cloud provider, it helps give customers increased control over their clusters. We use L...

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What advice do you have for others considering OpenNebula?

I recommend it, especially if you need a management interface for a small to medium private cloud. I would rate OpenNebula an eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

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Micro Focus Cloud Service Automation, Cloud Service Automation Manager, HPE Cloud Service Automation

Overview

OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is a turnkey enterprise-ready solution that includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, and to offer public cloud services.

OpenNebula

OpenText Cloud Service Automation provides open, heterogeneous, extensible enterprise-grade cloud service lifecycle management to design and orchestrate full stack services. CSA embraces existing automation assets with an enhanced orchestration engine, which provides IT with an informed, transparent delivery of secure compliant services for the hybrid cloud.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago, Nokia, Encore Tech, Beeks.

China Merchants Bank, Osiatis

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