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We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director 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.
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Pros
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use.""A product that really aids in systems management without complexity.""The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors.""Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product.""An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution.""UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else.""Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."

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"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.""​You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs​.""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).""It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution.""Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits.""Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features.""It is very easy to install and manage. It has the all modules in one node, unlike other software (OpenStack). The product allows a customized look and feel, and the ability to add custom workflows."

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Cons
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products.""The product's pricing needs to improve.""Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand.""Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable.""There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved.""I would like to see more integration with other solutions.""It is not easy to add or expand the product.""The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."

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"We did encounter issues with stability, and the main issue was secondary storage. When it is not available, XenServers and hypervisors are affected. And CS doesn’t do anything to reboot, or fix. Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn’t, considering their approach – CS just orchestrates everything else on the hypervisor and storage level.""​The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient.""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.""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.""I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved.""A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot.""It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The cost of this solution is significant."
  • "Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."
  • "The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
  • "I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."
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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:Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product… more »
    Top Answer:Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand. If Cisco UCS Director is able to integrate with another product or with a server from… more »
    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 »
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    Vmops, Cloud.com
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    Overview

    Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

    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
    Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge
    GreenQloud, Exoscale, TomTom, ASG, PC Extreme, ISWest, Grid'5000
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company25%
    Retailer13%
    Government13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    University9%
    Educational Organization9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco UCS Director vs. CloudStack
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco UCS Director vs. CloudStack and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 7 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while CloudStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloudStack writes "Low complexity cloud management with ever-improving Kubernetes integration". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director, whereas CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cloudify. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. CloudStack report.

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