We performed a comparison between CloudStack and Juniper AppFormix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"The platform is very simple to scale-out."
"CloudStack helped us showcase our features through process visualization and functional solutions."
"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."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"We had a relevant reduction of bureaucracy tasks."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"It's a stable product. I didn't find any issues with regard to stability. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"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 Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"The product does not have an easily implementable payment gateway."
"This product needs a lot improvement on the development side. Every new version introduces new bugs. It lacks many features needed for NFV like DPDK, SR-IOV support, etc."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"This solution has a yearly licensing. In my country, it's really expensive."
"My expectations were probably slightly more for the third-party tool integration; for example, regarding the analytics, I had some different tools. So, integration was not as good as I was expecting. So, analytics, configuration tool I was not really happy. So, there is room for improvement in context with integration with existing tools in our network environment."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while Juniper AppFormix is ranked 28th in Cloud Management with 2 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while Juniper AppFormix is rated 9.0. 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 Juniper AppFormix writes "Good scalability, useful in terms of collective analytics, and low latency ". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Automation and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Juniper AppFormix is most compared with .
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