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OpenText Cloud Management vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Cloud Management
Ranking in Cloud Management
54th
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 (7th), Network Automation (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (21st), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Cloud Management is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Automation is 5.5%, down from 10.6% 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 Management0.6%
Other93.9%
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."
"We can take a template, spin it up, revise it, save it back off, and be able to have that for other departments, so we can deploy things very quickly and easily instead of manually building systems that would take several hours or a day."
"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."
"It's also absolutely easy and intuitive. It uses the same basic layout as the rest of the product suite so it's really easy to navigate, find your way around between the tabs and the areas."
"States, pillars, and custom modules have all taken us a long way in achieving our goals."
"To manage when VM's aren't being used, we have it set up so that it will auto-destroy them after a certain amount of time, obviously with permission from the user who owns it."
"What we do with it is we've taken a very lengthy deployment process and we have shrunk it from what was a months-long process down to a matter of hours."
"The most valuable feature is the automation of the deployment of the whole machine."
"Most important criteria for selecting a vendor: Brand recognition, but also VMware being the biggest."
 

Cons

"Codar works well enough, but it's highly complex in setting up correctly."
"The upgrade process 6.x to 7.3 was a significant effort. I'm hoping that 7.3 to the next version is much smoother."
"Ability to mimic more VCD functionality. Ability to share blueprints among tenants, or have a master blueprint repository, so you don't have to move the stuff between tenants."
"It needs to be more dynamic with variable customization to make new workloads more reliable. It also needs to be faster. We are exploring vRA version 8 right now and maybe what I'm requesting is available in the new version, but we haven't yet explored it fully."
"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."
"The base library is missing some key elements such as networking management (mine is lacking on that front) and some more granularity on the apt part."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"We have seen some issues with upgrades or installations. This means we have to raise a call every time with VMware."
"I want to see HTML 5. I want to get rid of JavaScript. First off, I know nothing about JavaScript. That doesn't mean I'm going to know anything better about HTML 5, but I do know that we have a lot of issues with Java crashing when we're using vCenter."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"As far as value is concerned, it has been essential to our environment. We have been able to deploy VMs quickly and the developers have their own sandbox, so they can spin up and destroy VMs at their own will."
"It is pricey for what you get."
"VMware Aria Automation is expensive."
"This is an expensive product and the high price is starting to become an issue for us."
"It is an open-source product."
"They should provide one license for all the sub-products."
"From the customer perspective, the value was worth it."
"SaltStack is an open-source product."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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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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