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OpenText Cloud Service Automation vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Cloud Service Auto...
Ranking in Cloud Management
44th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Cloud Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Cloud Service Automation is 1.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Director is 2.7%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director2.7%
OpenText Cloud Service Automation1.3%
Other96.0%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2311353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation
The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management.  OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support.  I have been working with the product for three to five years.  I rate the product's stability an eight out of…
KuldeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Experienced users benefit from resource isolation and valuable self-service portal while seeing potential in enhanced infrastructure visibility
VMware is not going further with VMware Cloud Director. They are integrating the VMware Cloud Director feature with Aria Automation only for the upcoming versions, primarily with the VCF 9, and slowly they are integrating some of the parts they have already integrated, and they might not continue with VMware Cloud Director in the future. They can make it more granular to ensure hardware-level segregation, the underlying infrastructure level of segregation for the end user, and a separate security boundary where users can access the end-to-end layer. End-to-end layer means my software layer along with the hardware layer. If they want to do a certain level of troubleshooting primarily on the ESXi part, that is what I feel is lacking for now because for an end user accessing the SSP, the underlying infrastructure is a kind of black box for them. For VMware Cloud Director, it can be more comprehensive if we enable public cloud integration as well. In today's date, customers are adopting a multi-cloud environment where VMware Cloud Director is much feasible to leverage the underlying VMware backend architecture. If VMware Cloud Director could be made to have more integration with the public cloud and do the day one, day two jobs for public cloud interface as well, that would be beneficial. Additionally, I recommend leveraging the VMware Cloud Director layer if a customer has a multi-cloud environment and is planning some cross-cloud migration capability. Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa. In that case, VMware Cloud Director should provide some cross-cloud migration capability as well.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user-friendly the solution is."
"Scalability is the most valuable feature to us."
"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."
"vCloud is a good platform for visualization, it is very handy for monitoring, VMware can integrate with all monitoring systems like vRealize, and the management monitoring is good."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell, due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent."
"It has been working flawlessly for the last ten years and we have been very happy with it."
"They can do any provisioning for the virtual machines. For instance, they will only see those resources if we allocate 10 Ghz database storage. The limitation is due to our setup: we need to ensure customer isolation, as vCloud Director supports multi-tenancy."
"The deployment is easy."
"I like the networking and the flexibility of handling workloads within vCloud Director for virtual data center management."
 

Cons

"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"I haven't found very user friendly things, some are a little tricky."
"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 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."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
"The product's UI has certain shortcomings that require improvement."
"The integration between components could be improved."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform."
"I'm rather mixed. It is dead simple, but it still feels like duct taped solutions in a lot of aspects."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"Initially, the setup was complex but VMware is working to simplify the integration."
"VMware is not going further with VMware Cloud Director. They are integrating the VMware Cloud Director feature with Aria Automation only for the upcoming versions, primarily with the VCF 9, and slowly they are integrating some of the parts they have already integrated, and they might not continue with VMware Cloud Director in the future."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"OpenText Cloud Service Automation's pricing is average."
"It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
"I believe the pricing is reasonable."
"The licensing costs are pretty high, but it might depend on the size of the company."
"In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly."
"It is better than other solutions out there when it comes to cost."
"The solution is expensive so pricing is rated a four out of ten."
"The licensing cost is high for vCloud Director. It is mostly a perpetual license."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

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Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

China Merchants Bank, Osiatis
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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