We performed a comparison between CloudStack and RightScale Cloud Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"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."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage."
"It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time."
"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."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"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."
"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."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
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CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while RightScale Cloud Management Platform is ranked 25th in Cloud Management with 4 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while RightScale Cloud Management Platform is rated 7.6. 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 RightScale Cloud Management Platform writes "Good CMPs for cloud provisioning and excellent scalability". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Automation and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas RightScale Cloud Management Platform is most compared with .
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