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Likelihood to Recommend
CloudStack
Whether our clients are VPS hosting providers or operate private cloud infrastructure for their internal enterprise requirements, CloudStack provides solutions in an easy to implement and operate way that is simple to provide training for.The learning curve for our customesr adopting CloudStack for the management of their cloud infrastructure is shallow, enabling our clients to come up to speed quickly without having to outsource their administrative functions any longer than necessary
Software Engineer
Genesis software technologiesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Clouditalia TelecomunicazioniTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Workload Automation
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
7.2
Multi-platform scheduling
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
6.2
Central monitoring
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
6.0
Logging
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
7.9
Alerts and notifications
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
6.8
Analysis and visualization
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
8.0
Application integration
CloudStack
—
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
8.0
Pros
CloudStack
- Low-cost solution
- Open-source
- Engaged community
- Solid documentation
- Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good usability
Programador
CybermapInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
- The advantage to using vCloud Director is it a cloud based application allowing access anywhere. I have the ability to make changes to our virtual environment without being in the office or using a vpn.
- The vCloud Director provides a lot of the same features as vSphere.
Director of Information Technology
International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Cons
CloudStack
- 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
Manager of technical section of computing as a service
Universidade de São PauloEducation Management, 10,001+ employees
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
- It is not good for end users or customers to use. The UI is geared more towards VMware admins.
- There is somewhat of a learning curve to it, you have to think through and plan out how you want to set your OVDC and PVDCs up. It takes a lot of architecture experience.
- Once you built workloads in vCloud director, it's real difficult to take them out or manage them directly in vSphere. This is a huge pain.
Cloud Technical Lead
DatalinkInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Support Rating
CloudStack
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) 3.0
Based on 2 answers
Like most VMware, the vCloud Director support is not the best.
Socio / Director
On CloudComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Alternatives Considered
CloudStack
The University, my first large implementation, had a big issue with 149 small data centers spread on São Paulo State, this data centers costs to university were very high, the consolidation idea in two data centers were awesome, but were worried with the management, so we adopted ACS to management of all 576 physical hosts. Now a days the university is delivering IaaS for all staff, students, teachers and researchers, they are using these resources to delivery services to their clients and have a great results in research area
Software Engineer
Genesis software technologiesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well.
Director of Information Technology
International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
CloudStack
- Low-cost solution (free and open-source)
- More than 2000 users using it simultaneously
- Stable and reliable
- Up and running since 2012
Programador
CybermapInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
- Time to market = 0 means profits almost immediate after investment
- Customers trust the VMware brand more than any other
- Elasticity: allowing the company to choose the best HW in the lower layer
Cloud Solutions Architect
Clouditalia TelecomunicazioniTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
CloudStack
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No