We performed a comparison between CloudStack and OpenText Cloud Service Automation 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."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."
"You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."
"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."
"The absence of the feature, deploy an instance from a snapshot, is the weak point of the platform. It is a feature that everyone needs nowadays."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
"The area of Apache CloudStack that could stand the most improvement is the functionality/features around the virtual routers. They can be somewhat cumbersome to deal with at times and are the least stable piece of the product."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"There are some minor things that can be improved even more such as, perhaps, a bit more polishing on the GUI side to catch up with the API possibilities (which are really extensive) but otherwise nothing critical."
"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."
"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."
"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
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CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while OpenText Cloud Service Automation is ranked 27th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while OpenText Cloud Service Automation 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 OpenText Cloud Service Automation writes "Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation ". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VMware Aria Automation, whereas OpenText Cloud Service Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our CloudStack vs. OpenText Cloud Service Automation report.
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