We performed a comparison between CloudStack, RightScale Cloud Management Platform, and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability."
"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."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"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."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure."
"CloudStack is simple to stand up and get off the ground in a hurry. Its centralized design allows for easier troubleshooting when compared to OpenStack. Out of the box, it’s very well suited for white labeling and IaaS."
"The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage."
"Valuable features include integration with Infoblox, for IP management; and three-tier app deployment as one unified Blueprint."
"vRealize automation stability is pretty good. They are always fixing bugs. The product team is doing a great job of addressing any issues that we might have."
"The infrastructure has helped us to greatly increase our agility."
"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"usability; It's very user-friendly. It is not hard to go and find things. There is a one-click Help that you can use to find all the documentation you need to manage it."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It's not that difficult."
"Using the VMware vRealize self-service portal, we can better manage the lifecycle."
"It provides visibility into the VM space."
"My teammates have complained about the upgrade. The source code had massive files that had to be merged with our own development to upgrade to the latest version of CloudStack. It was quite painful for them. CloudStack could add some cost management tools to give me some control over the costs associated with the number of users of my services."
"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 product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"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."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
"The product's features for hybrid cloud integration could be better."
"I would like to see more out-of-the-box blueprints and workflows for the rest of VMware's products and its portfolio."
"vRO can get out of sync with vRA. We've run into every once in a while."
"The basic support is not there for Google Cloud and Azure. They are unable to provision nor do cost controls. Google is still left out. It is great that they have done AWS, but we are a retailer which means nothing to us because it is a competitor. Azure is good, but Google is where a lot of our development environments are."
"They could extend the ability to use vRealize Orchestrator Automation for organizations with multiple tenants. It should be easier to operate and extend different capabilities from vRealize Orchestrator. Currently, it's difficult to build advanced services in Aria Automation because you need to use the vRealize Orchestrator."
"The stability is okay, but could be improved. We sometimes receive strange errors, which can only be solved with specialists."
"I don't think it's intuitive or user-friendly. I think it's a good tool. Any automation tool, these days, the learning curve is kind of high. You're teaching sysadmins who never developed stuff. Maybe they modified a little bit of code and now you tell them, "Hey, here's the tool, use it." But you have to know a little bit of DevOps. So you have to train them how to do the scripting."
"The most important thing that we missed in vRanger was the possibility to mount several images instantaneously and present it so we can run it immediately."
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