We performed a comparison between CloudStack and OpenNebula 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."CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"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."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability."
"I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"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."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"It is quite easy to deploy."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."
"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"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 product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"It would be great to have a couple of “external” networks for VPC and have the possibility, for each domain, to choose they type of “external” network."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"There are small things that are hard. For example, making sure that it is going to be installable on public clouds."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while OpenNebula is rated 8.2. 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 OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". CloudStack is most compared with vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cloudify and VMware Aria Automation, whereas OpenNebula is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and Cloudify. See our CloudStack vs. OpenNebula report.
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