We performed a comparison between CloudStack and vCloud Director 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."The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits."
"It has become easy to deploy new devices with no or minimal hardware changes. Now, a user can be ready to use a firewall within a few minutes, as compared to the traditional physical model which involved purchase, shipping, hardware configuration, cabling, power, etc."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"The initial implementation process was quite good."
"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."
"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."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"We were using VMware, also combined with AirWatch and Boxer. We configured corporate emails on mobiles and used them for MDM applications on tablets, like the launcher."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"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. I'm very happy with VMware. VMware is good in management and monitoring systems."
"The tool is very stable."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"Lack of support for third-party software vendors such as Veeam and Zerto creates limitations on comprehensive offerings which would include backup and disaster recovery."
"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."
"The main reason why we started looking for another solution: backups, replication, HA, and dependency on secondary storage. CS is quite sensitive for infrastructure, and any kind of network disruption between CS and secondary storage leads to VM hanging."
"This product needs a lot improvement on the development side. Every new version introduces new bugs. It lacks many features needed for NFV like DPDK, SR-IOV support, etc."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"VPN P2S is cutting all connections except the CloudStack environment for the user when he is connected. I would like to have VPN like Cisco's AnyConnect."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, VMware Aria Automation and Cloudify, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our CloudStack vs. vCloud Director report.
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