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OpenText Operations Orchestration vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

OpenText and VMware are both solutions in the Process Automation category. OpenText is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.7, while VMware is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.1. 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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95% willing to recommend
 

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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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Operations Orchest...
Ranking in Process Automation
22nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (21st)
vCenter Orchestrator
Ranking in Process Automation
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 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 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
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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David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides automatic monitoring capabilities that save time for users
In my company's IT environment, we use the tool to deploy production environments for products, including live manufacturing systems. The product improves my company's IT automation processes since we can use fewer resources currently. In my company, we need to spend less time considering that vCenter Orchestrator monitors everything. In general, we don't have to be present in our company to do active monitoring. Automatic monitoring is available for everything with vCenter Orchestrator, so we have proactive alerts in our company. The most valuable feature of the product in streamlining our company's workflow stems from the fact that we need to spend fewer resources and less time in general. Our company can spend time on more effective tasks like working with the plans to improve processes and so on, instead of taking care of the systems. The benefits of the product's integration capabilities were useful for HPE. My company has HPE infrastructure, and we are keen to integrate everything into the host, VMware ESXi. It is really important to have an easy integration method that allows for everything to be installed easily in a matter of minutes. I was not involved in the product's setup process. My colleague took care of the product's setup process. From what I know, I can say that the product's setup phase was straightforward. Some custom setups were to be done manually in the tool, but everything was well documented. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. One of the benefits of the product is that it is a low-cost and stable solution that offers a lot of resources. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.
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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 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."
"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."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"It has the best workflow feature."
"I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"In regards to the workflows, the fact that we can actually have a full dashboard library of all the existing workflows on this is great. We can see all the workflows and what all the actions do and can work with scripts."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"The most valuable feature is workflow automation."
"The DRS feature from VMware is very valuable to us because it balances workloads."
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Cons

"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 tool's UI needs to be improved. It needs to have better administration features in future releases."
"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."
"Only the tool's support can be a drawback where improvements are needed."
"I would like to have an interface that can manage both on-premises and cloud solutions from a single console, where we can easily manage the resources that are being used or at least applications. Whereby clicking here and there from on-premises to cloud, or cloud to on-premises, depending on the requirements. If that can be accomplished, it will be extremely beneficial."
"The licensing is expensive and should be improved."
"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"We encounter challenges related to the renewal of support subscriptions."
"We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable."
"Enhancing the platform's setup process intuitiveness and offering more flexible pricing options could further improve its accessibility across different company sizes."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing or licensing of the product."
"The cost is very high compared to anything else available."
"The tool is expensive. I rate the tool a six if one is cheap and ten is very expensive."
"vCenter Orchestrator could be more affordable."
"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 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."
"The product is expensive."
"The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."
"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."
"We renew the solution's license every one or two years."
"The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
12%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
VMware
 

Sample Customers

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