#1 most frequent
United States of America
40.1%81 installations of 202
What is CloudStack?
CloudStack is a cloud management platform, from Apache.
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Who Buys & Uses Apache CloudStack
#2 most frequent
India
10.4%21 installations of 202
#3 most frequent
Brazil
5.9%12 installations of 202
Good for Everything
Pros
- New functionalities
- Fixing bugs
- Private and public clouds
Cons
- Sometimes you can find undocumented bugs
- It fails in the area where instead of making stuff that works bug free it introduces new ones with every minor or major release
- More Rigid
Return on Investment
- Delivering Infrastructure as a Service to University community. Resources are applied on research, management and education.
- Before that, there were a lot of local data centers spread trough the University (considering all campus). Using cloud computing with CloudStack, the operational cost was significantly decreasead
- Our need was in a low-cost product, not complex, with low maintenance, resilient, able to orchestrate a large pool of IT equipment
Reliable, stable and powerful orchestration tool for infrastructure as a service provider
Pros
- Low-cost solution
- Open-source
- Engaged community
- Solid documentation
- Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good usability
Cons
- Maintenance tools
- Less command line interventions
- Server logs not so friendly
- Upgrades are not so straightforward
- The graphical interface performance in big environments can get a little bit slow
Return on Investment
- Low-cost solution (free and open-source)
- More than 2000 users using it simultaneously
- Stable and reliable
- Up and running since 2012
Excellent Cost Benefit Solution
Pros
- The software permits a quick scalability of hardware.
- For end users, the interface provides the experience of total control of their resources as if they had a mini data center.
- Allow us to set resource limits and quotas for user accounts.
- VPN site-to-site allows interconnection between the cloud environment and the client local data center.
- VPC feature allow interconnection between two or more user accounts without the need to internet routing.
Cons
- Sometimes you can find undocumented bugs that can compromise the entire infrastructure.
- [If] you don't have an official support channel, you have try to find out the source of the problem by yourself.
- Volume size limitation. Other players allow you to create volumes up to 64TB while ACS allows only 2TB volumes
Return on Investment
- Minimal impact at migration from the earlier solution used (Citrix CloudPortal), once both solutions have a common kernel.
- Reduction to 0 with payment of software license.
Alternatives Considered
VMware ESXi and Mirantis OpenStack
Other Software Used
Citrix NetScaler, VMware ESXi, Cisco Unified Computing System Manager, Zimbra, XenServer, XenDesktop