CloudStack Primary Use Case

Wido Den Hollander - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Ambassador at 42on

As a shared hosting provider, we offer VPS services and rely on CloudStack as our core orchestrator for our infrastructure. We operate it on our own hardware and through an on-premises cloud. CloudStack allows us to virtualize and distribute our physical capacity across our various services.

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Nelson Marcos - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at Globo.com

We had our own AWS instance providing virtual machines. It works quite well with balancers. Around 30 engineers at my company use it.

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Arun S . - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Compared to other cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, CloudStack is an open-source cloud computing platform similar to OpenStack. The platform is primarily developed in Java, with its master and client services being open-source as well. This sets it apart from its competitors in the cloud computing market.

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Marco Sinhoreli - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue

My company is a consultancy service and we design, deploy, and support Apache CloudStack for companies worldwide. CloudStack is generally used as a cloud management solution for public clouds, where it is used as a type of bridge for telecom companies and cloud service providers. This is the most common use case around the world, but we also see a lot of use cases for universities as well private cloud environments that are situated on-premises.

Our typical process when using CloudStack starts with designing the cloud, which includes the infrastructure and everything that the customer needs to provide such as the servers, networking, and storage. Once the design is completed, our team then deploys and installs CloudStack, after which we handle the support and training of the customer's employees.

CloudStack is suitable for companies of all sizes, ranging across small, medium, and large. Some companies use it globally, whereas others may use it with a local cloud provider. 

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MD
Senior Software Engineer - Offboard Infrastructure at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

In our environment, we had two setups and ran instances in managing instances across both.

CloudStack improved productivity, and our primary usage was for a test installation to develop the Cluster API Provider for CloudStack.

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Saiful Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution as a private cloud on-premises. It is for central storage.

It's for business purposes. 

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AP
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Apache CloudStack to provide Public IaaS cloud services in Switzerland at two locations. Together with our own fiber optic-based private network, it features guaranteed latencies of under 0.5 ms per 80 km and optical encryption. We offer the highest level of security and confidentiality to our customers.

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Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The main goal was to have an IaaS solution which could be supported by a small number of people and which matches our business logic for internal units. In the end, CloudStack was deployed  as a private cloud, across three datacenters with different hardware vendors (HPE, Dell, Cisco Blades, EMC, and Supermicro storage) and advanced networking. It's more then 100 hosts (including DR) and more then 1,000 instances deployed. Final design included automatic limits configuration and access management.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for two things; the first is the handling of all of our virtual machines through centralization, and the second is the orchestration of services.

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Sibin John - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My company has developed solutions like user-friendly control portals and billing portals for CloudStack. Also we were providing infrastructure support for CloudStack-based IaaS platforms for a few of our clients. We used most possible cases like LDAP integrations, RBAC, etc., with CloudStack. We created multi-zone infrastructure with CloudStack and it was working great.

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it_user840183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization and Backup Engineer

CloudStack is an open-source platform for deploying infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Our company uses it to offer IaaS to companies who want to have public, private, or hybrid cloud.

I implemented this platform in two companies in Colombia. It was used to offer our customers a portal where they could create servers easily, safely, and have stable performance. I worked with different hypervisors and installed CloudStack in different operating systems. The integration is excellent. We had three zones in the platform for specific countries, approximately four pods and 10 clusters with VMware and XenServer hosts, and more than 500 virtual machines in production.

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OK
Junior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Primary use case of is set up deploy for testing team's artifacts. Usually it has 8-16 RAM, ~80 HDD.

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PT
Cloud Solutions Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We have created a zone-based setup in Cloudstack where each zone represents a physical datacentre. Each zone has a few servers/hypervisors with predefined VM templates.

We have a portal where a user just clicks a few times and gets a VM ready for use. We use API in the background, which gives instructions to Cloudstack to produce the desired results.

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it_user841137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quantitative Software Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I used Apache CloudStack as an academic project, for setting up the environments for a school's infrastructure, and not for specific applications' usage.

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it_user840186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use Apache CloudStack to host and orchestrate all of our virtual environments. We host both internal virtual machines and customer virtual machines.

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it_user687273 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager / Gerente de TI at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are an ISP in Brazil. We have started to offer IaaS to the market and our current customers. We implemented ACS in our datacenter starting with a zone, pod, and cluster. We also developed an eCommerce/user interface at the top of the Apache CloudStack platform.

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it_user881109 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer - Sr. UI Developer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

We are developing a software for data centers to ease the process of storage hardware maintenance and providing services.

We needed a framework which supported the basics of our requirements. CloudStack's framework was our first choice.

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it_user842943 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Development and test environment for customer.

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OK
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

CloudStack is our private IaaS cloud which helps us manage resource usage in our company. It is also a great PoC environment.

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it_user841134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Platform engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use it for our enterprise cloud.

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it_user153084 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Legacy support for a previous CloudStack environment.

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