OpenNebula vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

OpenNebula and Broadcom are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. OpenNebula is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while Broadcom is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.0. OpenNebula holds a 2.9% mindshare in CM, compared to Broadcom’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenNebula users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and OpenNebula are prominent competitors in the cloud management platform sector. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth stands out with a superior position in pricing and support, whereas OpenNebula is known for its versatile features.

Features: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers robust cost management, infrastructure optimization, and multi-cloud visibility. On the other hand, OpenNebula excels with simplicity, powerful orchestration, and extensive compatibility with on-premise and hybrid environments.

Room for Improvement: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth could improve its initial setup costs and enhance integration capabilities. It would also benefit from expanding its feature set tailored to smaller enterprises. OpenNebula might improve through more comprehensive support services, streamlining advanced feature setup, and enhancing its UI for complex configurations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth facilitates streamlined deployment and offers robust support, which ensures quick time-to-value and detailed customer service for enterprise-level requirements. OpenNebula provides adaptable deployments suited for diverse cloud infrastructures and features community-driven support that is effective for smaller configurations.

Pricing and ROI: VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth may have higher initial setup costs, but these are often offset by better ROI through enhanced cost management. OpenNebula's competitive pricing makes it an attractive choice for specific needs, providing a favorable ROI for organizations utilizing hybrid cloud strategies.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Ranking in Cloud Management

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenNebula is 2.9%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 1.8%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenNebula	2.9%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth	1.8%
Other	95.3%

Cloud Management

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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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Cláudio Braga

AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM

Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements

The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."

"It is quite easy to deploy."

"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."

"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."

"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."

"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."

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"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers."

"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."

"The pricing is rather competitive right now."

"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

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Cons

"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."

"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."

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

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

"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."

"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."

"They should add more features like object storage."

"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."

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"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."

"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."

"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."

"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."

"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."

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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."

"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."

"The solution is open source so is free."

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

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Performing Arts

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

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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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...

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What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?

This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...

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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.

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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.

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Sample Customers

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

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

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