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."Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"CloudStack helped us showcase our features through process visualization and functional solutions."
"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."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"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."
"I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"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 number of contributors to this solution is relatively small compared to other solutions. However, if more frequent users of CloudStack contribute to the open-source community, it will significantly enhance the overall community experience and make it more useful for everyone involved."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."
"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 solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th 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, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cloudify and VMware Aria Automation, 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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