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TrustRadius Insights for Apache CloudStack are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users have made several recommendations for CloudStack based on their experiences. They suggest using CloudStack for managing cloud services, as it provides an effective way to streamline cloud infrastructure. CloudStack is also highly recommended for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and private cloud needs, offering the necessary tools and capabilities to create and maintain a secure and scalable environment. Users advise starting with basic services and consulting the installation guide to ensure a smooth implementation of CloudStack. Overall, users find that CloudStack meets their needs in terms of development, administration, managing cloud services, IaaS, private clouds, and more. They appreciate its simplicity, reliability, and ability to handle enterprise-level workloads effectively.

CloudStack Reviews

1 Review
Enterprises (1,001+ employees)

Excellent Cost Benefit Solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have to provide a private cloud infrastructure in our university in order to supply the demand for virtual resources for our researchers. Instead of each one of them deploying to a small datacenter in their labs, we can centralize all hardware in datacenters with redundancy, reliability and all services of an SLA. As the orchestrator layer, Apache CloudStack facilitates the management of compute, storage and network resources.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Apache Cloudstack provides a complete solution for different end users' skills. It works fine with the most known hypervisors and also has a great cost benefit for small and medium companies. You are able to manage a complete cloud environment with a minimal support team. Unfortunately, Apache Cloudstack is not the first choice as a cloud orchestrator, so it can be difficult to find solutions for other companies to integrate their products to a cloudstack solution.

Alternatives

VMware ESXi and Mirantis OpenStack
Apache CloudStack is the perfect solution for small and medium companies or for those who are starting in the world of cloud computing. From my point of view, there is an advantage against VMware solutions with regard to software license price and open stack solution in regards to software complexity.
JV
João Victor Rodrigues Soares
Manager of technical section of computing as a service in Information Technology at Universidade de São Paulo (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
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Apache CloudStack
4 years of experience
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