We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and CloudStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."
"The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports."
"Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before."
"You can scale it easily."
"The initial setup process is straightforward."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup."
"CloudStack helped us showcase our features through process visualization and functional solutions."
"My company could implement a lot of customizations and integration with load balancers and DNS. When we started using CloudStack, we didn't have that integration, so we developed that. We could fix anything missing in the solution."
"You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"We had a relevant reduction of bureaucracy tasks."
"You can manage infrastructure with a few people, since product is monolithic. We had three engineers (storage, virtual, Linux admins) only. Also, CS supports different flavours of hypervisors."
"It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution."
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills."
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw."
"I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain."
"There are some minor things that can be improved even more such as, perhaps, a bit more polishing on the GUI side to catch up with the API possibilities (which are really extensive) but otherwise nothing critical."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"We did encounter issues with stability, and the main issue was secondary storage. When it is not available, XenServers and hypervisors are affected. And CS doesn’t do anything to reboot, or fix. Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn’t, considering their approach – CS just orchestrates everything else on the hypervisor and storage level."
"I encountered some stability issues. When I tried to remove high-capacity virtual machines it took a long time to update, and sometimes the VM status failed to update properly in the cloud database. This occurred multiple times, even though I had sufficient resources."
"From time to time there is a bug in calculating limits of resources for customer domain/account. Maybe it’s a problem with 4.9.2."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while CloudStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Cisco UCS Director, VMware Aria Automation and Faddom, whereas CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. CloudStack report.
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