We performed a comparison between CloudStack and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The back-end database design is simple and straight forward. The user interface is designed with external users in mind. Billing is relatively straightforward with this product. Not being restricted to just one hypervisor was nice."
"When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective."
"CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure."
"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."
"The initial implementation process was quite good."
"It is very easy to install and manage. It has the all modules in one node, unlike other software (OpenStack). The product allows a customized look and feel, and the ability to add custom workflows."
"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."
"We had a relevant reduction of bureaucracy tasks."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"We can scale the solution."
"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"The solution is stable."
"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation."
"The solution was easy to install."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"For time consuming operations like storage migrations, volume Snapshot restore and the like, we faced issues like MySQL operations timing out and status update failures. Those areas needs improvement."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"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."
"CS has very descriptive logging, and every time I faced issues and asked for help, I didn’t get any reply from the community. Reason? Its quite obvious. CS runs on specific environments, unique to each case. So, unless it is a functional issue of CS, nobody can help you. All issues were resolved by myself going through logs. This is another reason why you need smart enough people to manage it. Engineers must have knowledge of hypervisors and understand how CS interacts with them."
"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 believe a transparent view and better terms of condition between Oracle and vCenter Orchestrator would be helpful."
"I would like to see better performance."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The custom workflows are very difficult and confusing."
"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."
"There are some update-related issues with the product."
"The GUI should be enhanced in the future."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. 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 vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cloudify, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.
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