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 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."
"CloudStack’s private gateway networking feature is what enables us to offer utmost security and confidentially to our customers and partners, by enabling them to connect to their virtual data centers via dedicated, encrypted, private fiber lines that never touch the public internet space. Ease of setup and management are certainly important additional benefits for us on the engineering team."
"The initial implementation process was quite good."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"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."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"The tool is very stable."
"Good features of extensibility, which allows integration of other services."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"VPN P2S is cutting all connections except the CloudStack environment for the user when he is connected. I would like to have VPN like Cisco's AnyConnect."
"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."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem. However, this has been solved in the newest version."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 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), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our CloudStack vs. vCloud Director report.
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