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."It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"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."
"Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability."
"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 gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"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."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The deployment is easy."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"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."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"The area of Apache CloudStack that could stand the most improvement is the functionality/features around the virtual routers. They can be somewhat cumbersome to deal with at times and are the least stable piece of the product."
"My teammates have complained about the upgrade. The source code had massive files that had to be merged with our own development to upgrade to the latest version of CloudStack. It was quite painful for them. CloudStack could add some cost management tools to give me some control over the costs associated with the number of users of my services."
"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."
"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 user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"We recognize that CloudStack is an easy-to-use cloud management platform and, in my opinion, there has been a large number of improvements in the past few years, particular when it comes to the modern UI and overall ease of management. However, I believe that CloudStack needs to grow their marketing in the commercial side. They don't have a great piece of market share right now."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"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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