Likelihood to Recommend Mirantis is well suited for someone who doesn't mind spending money but doesn't quite want to commit to a cloud provider like AWS. It is also well suited for small or junior technical teams that don't have the skills, experience, or time to run their own openstack clusters.
Read full review Best suited for - any organization where you have people who already have expertise on OpenStack, Linux & IP networking. Otherwise, the maintenance & operations will be difficult. When the number of deployed VMs reaches its capacity, it becomes very difficult to manage Red Hat OpenStack because there are no in-built fault management & performance management tools available within Red Hat OpenStack. Not suited for - Organizations where people have a culture of working on automated GUI-based tools. Here VMware wins over Red Hat OpenStack. Also where you have mission-critical applications where downtime cannot be tolerated.
Read full review Pros Can be deployed and run on bare metal on premises clouds Is highly reliable and highly scalable One of the good performance private cloud IAAS platforms available around Read full review Scaling of application components (VMs). Managing the networking between virtual machines. Management of VNFs & the underlying infrastructure. Availability & uptime of VMs because of features like VM migration & evacuation. Read full review Cons Mirantis OpenStack managed services are expensive. Very expensive for a start-up. I'd personally like to see a little more under the hood details in the status pages. Mirantis could also benefit heavily from a free "light" version that start-ups could use to run their own cloud. Maybe coupled with advertising or some sort of surveys. Read full review User management really needs improvement - when compared to AWS or GCP. Security of the overall platform needs to be improved. The whole architecture needs to be modular which is not. Ex - Upgrading any particular component (nova, neutron, cinder) should be possible without upgrading the whole Red Hat OpenStack version. The creation of HEAT templates for complex applications is still a challenge & has a dependency on external tools. Stack creation still requires parameters modification at controllers & compute because of the complex nova-scheduler algorithm. Read full review Alternatives Considered Mirantis OpenStack for
Kubernetes is easily manageable and has seamlessly configurable containers. It also has high reliability and security, which is certainly a positive point for this product. Overall I think it is a worthy competitor in the market to compare for your needs.
Read full review Only because of low cost & zero licensing of Red Hat OpenStack
Read full review Return on Investment Mirantis did help our business figure out if openstack was right for us. Using Mirantis I felt a bit cheated on understanding the deep technical knowledge of how openstack works. But that being said that is probably a value add more than a detractor for most people. Using Mirantis was considerably cheaper than AWS. Read full review Saved CAPEX for sure (I can't quote a figure). Saved Opex also - because a large support community is already available. Increased complexity of system setup though. Read full review ScreenShots