OpenText Operations Orchestration vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

OpenText and VMware are both solutions in the Process Automation category. OpenText is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.7, while VMware is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2. OpenText holds a 0.7% mindshare in PA, compared to VMware’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

vCenter Orchestrator and OpenText Operations Orchestration compete in process automation and orchestration solutions. OpenText Operations Orchestration shows an advantage with its comprehensive feature set.

Features: vCenter Orchestrator integrates well with VMware environments, making it seamless for virtual machine management and centralized IT environment control. It supports robust automation tasks with workflow libraries and third-party integrations. OpenText Operations Orchestration supports extensive process automation with drag-and-drop GUIs, scalable architecture, and compliance integration, making it adaptable across IT domains.

Room for Improvement: vCenter Orchestrator can enhance integration support beyond VMware and simplify its deployment process for non-VMware scenarios. It may also develop a more user-friendly interface for broader usability. OpenText Operations Orchestration could improve initial setup complexity and offer more affordable pricing structures. It might benefit from more built-in cloud-native capabilities and user interface enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Operations Orchestration is straightforward to deploy, with excellent customer support and integration capabilities for various IT systems. Its proactive service model enhances customer satisfaction. Meanwhile, vCenter Orchestrator offers ease of use within VMware systems but might require technical expertise for deployment outside of VMware environments. Customer support is considered responsive and effective, especially for VMware-related inquiries.

Pricing and ROI: vCenter Orchestrator provides a cost-effective option for existing VMware customers, resulting in good ROI from its targeted features. OpenText Operations Orchestration may incur higher initial costs, but its extensive automation capabilities deliver significant ROI over time, making it a valuable investment for comprehensive IT orchestration.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Operations Orchest...

Ranking in Process Automation

20th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (19th)

vCenter Orchestrator

Ranking in Process Automation

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of OpenText Operations Orchestration is 0.7%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmed Salman

Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company

Increases productivity with automation and robust orchestration capabilities

The community is very powerful, with extensive knowledge bases available. There are ready-made workflows, integration with other products, a nice user interface, and reporting. The tool is flexible, agent-based or agentless. It allows significant automation and has robust orchestration and reporting capabilities. It is easy to configure and use, leading to increased efficiency across our IT processes.

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Gerhard Gmelch

IT architect endpoint at Rohde & Schwarz

Enhance automation efficiency with cost-effective graphical workflow design

I use vCenter Orchestrator for automation purposes, specifically to run automation workbooks The most valuable features are the graphical UI for designing the workflows and the interfaces that come out of the box. Additionally, it is included in the VMware Vitalization Stack, which means there…

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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 product is good functionality-wise. I am impressed with the tool's flexibility in customization."

"In my environment, if I want to shut down all tools in one shot, I can create a workflow and run the workflow to shut down all tools in one go."

"It has reduced the time taken to go to market. In the past, we were struggling with building these integrations, but now the process has sped up and there is an added advantage of quick delivery. In addition, it is an agent-less solution, which provides more flexibility in terms of multiple options."

"The community is very powerful, with extensive knowledge bases available."

"It's very stable. If you ask me for the success rate metrics, it's more than 90% for both."

"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."

"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."

"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."

"The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."

"The backup and recovery times are very quick."

"Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful."

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Cons

"Only the tool's support can be a drawback where improvements are needed."

"I would prefer the addition of ready-made workflows for common scenarios such as Oracle database switchovers or Exchange server scenarios."

"The price is an area that should be addressed because the price is high."

"The tool's UI needs to be improved. It needs to have better administration features in future releases."

"There were a lot of scalability issues that we initially faced. Whenever I tried to deploy 100-200 endpoints, it became a huge challenge. We had to actually start using other tools like Tivoli Endpoint Management in order to patch the issues."

"The solution has a limited count of parallel executions, which can be a bottleneck for larger environments."

"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."

"Enhancing the platform's setup process intuitiveness and offering more flexible pricing options could further improve its accessibility across different company sizes."

"The GUI should be enhanced in the future."

"The solution’s pricing and integration could be improved."

"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."

"The only point for improvement is the price, which has increased by 135%, making it very expensive."

"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is very high compared to anything else available."

"I do not have experience with the pricing or licensing of the product."

"The tool is expensive. I rate the tool a six if one is cheap and ten is very expensive."

"This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri."

"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."

"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."

"We pay a yearly fee, based on our entries."

"The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."

"Our licensing is on a yearly basis. We pay for the license and then we pay the support every year."

"The concept of hyper-convergence is smart. I don't know if it can be applied with less cost to be more affordable for small or medium-sized companies. The cost is a very important factor for it. We are currently depending on SAN storage. However, the hyper-converged solutions are depending on the storage within the hosts, such as vSAN in the VMware. It is a smart solution."

"My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."

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Financial Services Firm

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Government

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Operations Orchestration?

The pricing is medium, and the automation helps in cost and time savings, resulting in substantial value for money.

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What needs improvement with Operations Orchestration?

I would prefer the addition of ready-made workflows for common scenarios such as Oracle database switchovers or Exchange server scenarios. This would save time by not starting from scratch each time.

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What advice do you have for others considering Operations Orchestration?

This tool serves as a central management hub, allowing seamless control of various IT processes via one console. I rate this solution eight out of ten.

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What do you like most about vCenter Orchestrator?

The stability of the product is very good.

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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.

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What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?

After the change from perpetual licensing to subscriptions, the cost model changed. We are considering alternatives since we lost the perpetual aspect, and support is changing.

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Also Known As

Micro Focus Operations Orchestration, Operations Orchestration, HPOO, HPE Operations Orchestration

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Overview

OpenText Operations Orchestration (OO) automates, integrates, and orchestrates any IT process, on cloud or off. Automate using low-code/no-code workflow authoring options. Integrate with an API rich, extensible platform. Centrally orchestrate powerful, scalable workflows.

With OO you can automate and orchestrate infrastructure automation and IT processes from service fulfillment to incident remediation, cloud service delivery, and disaster recovery.

Operations Orchestration offers the tools needed to provide enterprise wide orchestration capabilities:

Design automation workflows with a low-code/no-code designer canvas, content library, and API generator wizards.
Govern your automation in one place and centrally orchestrate powerful, scalable workflows in large, high availability environments.
Schedule workflows and make sure that SLAs are met and workflows execution happens when you need it.
Expose REST APIs to programmatically invoke orchestration from any external source.
Automate difficult interfaces with RPA robots that mimic screen based human actions.
Follow business and operational metrics to understand the value and the health of your orchestration environment.
Expose orchestration scenarios as services to your end users in an easy to use Self-Service catalog.

Operations Orchestration offers the following components:

OpenText

VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.

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Sample Customers

Casablanca INT, Internet Initiative Japan, Railway Information Systems, Samsung SDS, and Turkcell.

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