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We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and CloudStack 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco CloudCenter vs. CloudStack Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services.""Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well.""You can scale it easily.""Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before.""The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports.""Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""The initial setup process is straightforward.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup."

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"CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure.""CloudStack, by default, gives us a zone-based setup which makes it easier to manage datacenters located in different geographical areas.""My company could implement a lot of customizations and integration with load balancers and DNS. When we started using CloudStack, we didn't have that integration, so we developed that. We could fix anything missing in the solution.""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 structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development.""It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution.""Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features.""It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."

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Cons
"The solution needs to be more simple.""You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches.""For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw.""I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain.""The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together.""They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills.""Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution."

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"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.""The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init.""The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn.""The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway.""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.""It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance).""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.""We recognize that CloudStack is an easy-to-use cloud management platform and, in my opinion, there has been a large number of improvements in the past few years, particular when it comes to the modern UI and overall ease of management. However, I believe that CloudStack needs to grow their marketing in the commercial side. They don't have a great piece of market share right now."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
  • "The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
  • "The tool's pricing is expensive."
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  • "The Apache CloudStack is open source, so you do not have licenses to purchase."
  • "​Give an effort to planning. If possible, contract a specialized consultant company for the initial setup and knowledge transfer.​​"
  • "As far as I know, CS is still free of charge. If you want to pay some money, Citrix Cloud Platform is based on CS, I think. As for hypervisors – everything as usual, you need to pay for VMware and vCenter. As for XenServer, recently they changed the free feature list, so you may need to pay some money to get useful features like XenMotion."
  • "There is no license, so the product is free unless you are buying professional technical support services."
  • "CloudStack is an open source solution, so you don't need to pay anything for it. When our company develops something specially for CloudStack, it is donated to the Apache Software Foundation and provided to anyone that wants to use it."
  • "The solution is open-source and free."
  • "It is a 100% open-source solution needing just an Apache license. Also, there are no hidden fees to be paid."
  • "CloudStack is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The initial setup process is straightforward.
    Top Answer:They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.
    Top Answer:We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.
    Top Answer:The initial implementation process was quite good.
    Top Answer:CloudStack is an open-source product. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten. It provides good value.
    Top Answer:The product had some limitations. So, I decided to write my own stack from scratch. The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway. It must provide a payment gateway hook in future… more »
    Ranking
    18th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    775
    Comparisons
    474
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    698
    Rating
    7.8
    12th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    2,166
    Comparisons
    1,513
    Reviews
    7
    Average Words per Review
    735
    Rating
    8.3
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
    Vmops, Cloud.com
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    Overview

    The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

    With Cisco CloudCenter breakthrough application-centric technology, users
    can:

    • Model: Quickly and easily build a cloud-independent application profile that defines the deployment and management requirements of an entire application stack.
    • Deploy: Use one click to deploy the application profile and related components and data to any data center or cloud environment.
    • Manage: Apply a wide range of application lifecycle actions to set policies to enable in-place scaling, support cross-environment bursting or high availability and disaster recovery, and stop the deployment.
    Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
    GreenQloud, Exoscale, TomTom, ASG, PC Extreme, ISWest, Grid'5000
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Educational Organization10%
    University9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco CloudCenter vs. CloudStack
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco CloudCenter vs. CloudStack and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while CloudStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director and Faddom, whereas CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. CloudStack report.

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