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OpenText Operations Orchestration vs. VMware Site Recovery Manager

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Operations Orchestration

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOpenText™ Operations Orchestration automates, integrates, and orchestrates any IT process, on cloud or off. Automations use low-code/no-code workflow authoring options. Integrations are done with an API-rich, extensible platform. Centrally orchestrates workflows.N/A

    VMware SRM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText Operations OrchestrationVMware SRM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Operations OrchestrationVMware SRM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    OpenText Operations OrchestrationVMware SRM
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of OpenText Operations Orchestration and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    OpenText Operations Orchestration
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Operations OrchestrationVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Operations OrchestrationVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    The products are being paired by the company with different software to specifically fit multiple scenarios. As a standalone platform, it can answer any task with its build-in content or the ability to create your own content and solution.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    It's quite well suited for a medium to large size VMWare virtualization infrastructure where your production infrastructure can be failed over to a disaster recovery site. There are other cheaper options for a smaller budget business. Also, for a non mission critical virtual infrastructure, you can simply use VM backups such as Veeam backups for restoring failed VMs
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • Allows for the quick disconnection of accounts that break our terms of service
    • Seamless integration with our billing system
    • Has the ability to house all member/client account information in one single location
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Easy configuration and setup.
    • Testing of a particular VM or datastore with several VMs is easy.
    • Auto configuration of IPs makes the process even easier.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • The product build in portal need to be more flexible
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It’s unfortunate, but more and more, the quality of VMware’s products and the technical support teams behind them has degraded significantly. We have opened several support requests within the last few months and ended up resolving a large majority ourselves due to the poor performance of their remote teams.
    • VMware is suffering from the same illness that’s affecting multiple U.S. technology firms, in that their focus has shifted completely away from their customers and moved to pleasing investors. In doing so, clients suffer because they do not get properly tested products and the support teams behind them are very weak and overwhelmed.
    • We worked close to a month trying to get SRM V6.5 to work. We have worked with many previous versions of SRM in the past while using HP EVAs, NetApps and Hitachi arrays, and we can honestly say that we are greatly disappointed with this release and the company.
    • We escalated right up to engineering, but their response times were brutally slow; the technicians were juniors at best.
    • As a technology leader, the last thing you want during a DR is to be dealing with a company that just can't deliver. SRM is not cheap, and you would expect much better products and support from VMware.
    • If you are comparing products, try other companies like Veeam... We ended up using them instead, the setup and execution was easy and seamless, and they answered all our questions quickly and efficiently. They actually do care about their clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    - easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    Most product works well enough, but none of them combine the non-agent/client approach to automation with an easy to develop mechanism (the drag&drop development approach) This alone put this solution on top of our preferred implantation product list
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Entertained Veeam, however with SRM's tight integration and "brand" it was an easy decision. The cost for a 25 server license also weighed in the decision for using a VMware product. Plus I am a VMware fan and feel this option to go with SRM will transcend jobs.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • If time is money, the time saved by using this all-in-one product has certainly saved time AND money.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
    • We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
    Incentivized
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