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."
"We had a relevant reduction of bureaucracy tasks."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"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."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"CloudStack, by default, gives us a zone-based setup which makes it easier to manage datacenters located in different geographical areas."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is the scaling architecture that they have built."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The absence of the feature, deploy an instance from a snapshot, is the weak point of the platform. It is a feature that everyone needs nowadays."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"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."
"Lack of support for third-party software vendors such as Veeam and Zerto creates limitations on comprehensive offerings which would include backup and disaster recovery."
"I encountered some stability issues. When I tried to remove high-capacity virtual machines it took a long time to update, and sometimes the VM status failed to update properly in the cloud database. This occurred multiple times, even though I had sufficient resources."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"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 integration between components could be improved."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware and resources for cloud deployment than other competitors. Additionally, the performance could improve."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
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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