We performed a comparison between CloudStack and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules."
"The back-end database design is simple and straight forward. The user interface is designed with external users in mind. Billing is relatively straightforward with this product. Not being restricted to just one hypervisor was nice."
"It has become easy to deploy new devices with no or minimal hardware changes. Now, a user can be ready to use a firewall within a few minutes, as compared to the traditional physical model which involved purchase, shipping, hardware configuration, cabling, power, etc."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits."
"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."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it makes it to manage the VM."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs."
"The most valuable feature for us is the performance stability of vCenter Orchestrator, especially in complex situations, making it excellent for managing virtual machines."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"The number of contributors to this solution is relatively small compared to other solutions. However, if more frequent users of CloudStack contribute to the open-source community, it will significantly enhance the overall community experience and make it more useful for everyone involved."
"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."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"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."
"It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."
"Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration."
"I would like to see more automation added in the future."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"The response time of vCenter Orchestrator's support could be improved."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
"Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution. The interface also needs improvement, it should be simplified."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. 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 vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cloudify, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.
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