Platform9 Managed OpenStack vs. Rackspace Managed Private Cloud vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Platform9's Managed OpenStack enables users to deploy and operate OpenStack Hybrid Cloud with a 100% SaaS based service. The SaaS platform lets users go live with an OpenStack private cloud with its deployment tools. The Platform9 dashboard is designed to offer visibility into infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads.N/A
Rackspace Managed Private Cloud
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Rackspace offers customizable private cloud infrastructure as a managed service, featuring managed security, backup and disaster recovery, and other features. The hosted private cloud solutions allow users to run and optimize workloads in a preferred location and infrastructure, without an major rework, and without re-architecting applications.N/A
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
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VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Enterprise
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Platform9 Managed OpenStackRackspace Managed Private CloudVMware Cloud Director
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
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10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Platform9 Managed OpenStackRackspace Managed Private CloudVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
Platform9
If you're having OnPremise Infrastructure and you want to use OpenStack in that case Platform9 Managed OpenStack is recommended to use it will cut down all the complexities of setting up and managing OpenStack IaaS. Platform9 also offers setting up OpenStack on Cloud Such as AWS, GCP, and Azure but wouldn't recommend using this kind of offering as Openstack performs well when underneath virtualized infrastructure is backed directly hypervisors not cloud providers.
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Rackspace
I used gsuite so they have many feature where expensive too on the other hand rackspace email solution is cheaper with limited facility.
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VMware by Broadcom
If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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Pros
Platform9
  • It removes all the Openstack complexities and provides a simple UI to the end user.
  • Reduced the pain of System Administrator and Engineers.
  • Highly responsive support.
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Rackspace
  • Allies manipulation so that we can rename the email box easily.
  • Microsoft Office support it's helps to use office 365
  • Chat support for any error
  • Price is reasonable
  • No need to worry about configuration all are easy to use.
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Building virtual racks
  • Managing the customers' network and security
  • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
  • Integration with major software providers
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Cons
Platform9
  • User interface and User experience are not upto the mark. UI needs lots of improvements.
  • We need to do entire setup from the scratch.
  • Nothing as such other than UI Improvements.
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Rackspace
  • Need to be more cheaper
  • Signature system improvement
  • Spam protection should be more strong
  • Custom url facility
  • Storage Drive service
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VMware by Broadcom
  • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
  • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
  • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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Alternatives Considered
Platform9
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Rackspace
Their service is complex. Need more technical skills to establish the service where rackspace is cheaper and easier to deploy
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VMware by Broadcom
vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset it
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Return on Investment
Platform9
  • Platform9 simplified scaling in and out hypervisors now adding capacity takes very less time than other OpenStack environments.
  • Platfrom9 Managed Openstack gives us feeling of having our own private cloud!
  • It has increased the availability of our infrastructure which resulted lessen downtime on workloads deployed on top of it.
  • Overall it benefited us in all means.
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Rackspace
  • Negative impact is nothing
  • Positive support is no hardware required in office premises.
  • Easily can manage any issues from control panel.
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
  • Stable, so little to non downtime
  • With P1 , good support
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