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."You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling 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."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure."
"The product gives us the ability to orchestrate large virtual environments and is flexible enough to allow us to configure it for what we need. We value the flexibility of the networking feature set as well as the ability to build virtual private clouds."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"Improvements could be made in the building feature since there isn't a real building feature associated with the product. We require a building feature to integrate with other solutions."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
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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