CloudStack vs VMware Cloud Director

Likelihood to Recommend

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

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Nidhin Chandradas

Software Engineer

Genesis software technologiesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Raffaello Poltronieri

Cloud Solutions Architect

Clouditalia TelecomunicazioniTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Low-cost solution
Open-source
Engaged community
Solid documentation
Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good usability

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Vinicius Lima

Programador

CybermapInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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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

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João Victor Rodrigues Soares

Manager of technical section of computing as a service

Universidade de São PauloEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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John Wellen

Cloud Technical Lead

DatalinkInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Support Rating

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VMware Cloud Director 3.0

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Like most VMware, the vCloud Director support is not the best.

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Esteban Rey

Socio / Director

On CloudComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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

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Nidhin Chandradas

Software Engineer

Genesis software technologiesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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