We performed a comparison between CloudStack and HPE Eucalyptus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"CloudStack, by default, gives us a zone-based setup which makes it easier to manage datacenters located in different geographical areas."
"The platform is very simple to scale-out."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the interface on the console."
"The absence of the feature, deploy an instance from a snapshot, is the weak point of the platform. It is a feature that everyone needs nowadays."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."
"It would be great to have a couple of “external” networks for VPC and have the possibility, for each domain, to choose they type of “external” network."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."
"The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"The customization should be improved."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while HPE Eucalyptus is ranked 38th in Cloud Management. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while HPE Eucalyptus is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Eucalyptus writes "Good interface, and an easy initial setup with good community support on the free version". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VMware Aria Automation, whereas HPE Eucalyptus is most compared with OpenNebula.
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