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."You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability."
"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."
"You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA)."
"The platform is very simple to scale-out."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"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."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"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."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"From time to time there is a bug in calculating limits of resources for customer domain/account. Maybe it’s a problem with 4.9.2."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
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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), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VMware Aria Automation, whereas RightScale Cloud Management Platform is most compared with .
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