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 platform is very simple to scale-out."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"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."
"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."
"CloudStack helped us showcase our features through process visualization and functional solutions."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"This solution has helped us make money and provision our clients faster."
"There are various options for scaling and that flexibility is a good option."
"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."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"There are some minor things that can be improved even more such as, perhaps, a bit more polishing on the GUI side to catch up with the API possibilities (which are really extensive) but otherwise nothing critical."
"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 numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"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 didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
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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