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What is CloudStack?

CloudStack is a cloud management platform, from Apache.

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Reliable, stable and powerful orchestration tool for infrastructure as a service provider

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 19, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use CloudStack to deliver IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to a university community. Resources are applied on research, management and education across the whole Univers...
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Vinicius Lima
Technician - Information Technology
Programador
Cybermap
Apache CloudStack3 years of experience

Good for Everything

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 7, 2018
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Apache CloudStack offers a solid documentation and a large community for users and developers that make troubleshooting less difficult. Is a very reliable tool for orchestrati...
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Nidhin Chandradas
Administrator - Information Technology
Software Engineer
Genesis software technologies
Apache CloudStack2 years of experience

Excellent Cost Benefit Solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 7, 2016
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 deploy...
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João Victor Rodrigues Soares
Manager - Information Technology
Manager of technical section of computing as a service
Universidade de São Paulo
Apache CloudStack4 years of experience
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Product Demos

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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.

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Reliable, stable and powerful orchestration tool for infrastructure as a service provider

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 19, 2018
VL
Vinicius Lima
Programador
Cybermap (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apache CloudStack
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use CloudStack to deliver IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to a university community. Resources are applied on research, management and education across the whole University. Before that, there were a lot of local data centers spread across the university's several campuses. Using cloud computing with CloudStack, the operational and management costs were significantly decreasead.
Pros and Cons
  • Low-cost solution
  • Open-source
  • Engaged community
  • Solid documentation
  • Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good usability
Likelihood to Recommend
CloudStack is well suited if you want to keep the costs low and still need a reliable and robust tool to cloud virtualization orchestration. The end user interface is friendly so users can find and use functionalities quickly. Also, the newer version allows you to integrate CloudStack with external authentication using SAML for single sign-on. It can be less appropriate for an administrator that does not want to do a lot of interventions using a command line or that does not use the Linux operating system.
Return on Investment
  • Low-cost solution (free and open-source)
  • More than 2000 users using it simultaneously
  • Stable and reliable
  • Up and running since 2012
Alternatives Considered
CloudStack stacks up by keeping it simple for end users through its UI. Admins may take some time to get familiar with everything and to learn how to manage it efficiently. The main advantages of CloudStack are that is free, open-source (written in Java) and has an engaged community for support and troubleshooting. Finally, it can be less appropriate in scenarios where admins are not familiar with Linux operating systems and command line interventions.

Good for Everything

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 07, 2018
NC
Nidhin Chandradas
Software Engineer
Genesis software technologies (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apache CloudStack
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apache CloudStack offers a solid documentation and a large community for users and developers that make troubleshooting less difficult. Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good and simple usability.

You can deploy new virtual machines with a few clicks.

Due to big and engaged community, updates are available frequently in order to solve bugs and improve features.

Is an open-source software that is very important to build a low cost solution.

The orchestration architecture is simple. With only one server it is possible to have a cloud orchestrator, provisioning network, compute and disk. Updates are often published. User authentication can be based in SAML 2.0. This product is open source and is possible to create features as your needs. Good features can be submitted to the community to be released in next versions. Almost all functions to maintenance are available in API.

CloudStack is a simple monolithic agnostic orchestration tool that you need a couple hours to study, design and implement to have huge result, an entire IaaS experience. Because it's simple the troubleshooting is very easy and the providers can delivery a great SLA to their clients

Apache CloudStack an open source solution that allows us keep in touch with the worldwide community of contributors whose maintain its source code and working actively of creation of new functionalities, fixing bugs and helping other users solve their problems. The software also permits a quick scalability of hardware. For end users, the interface provides the experience of total control of your resources as if they had mini data-center


Pros and Cons
  • New functionalities
  • Fixing bugs
  • Private and public clouds
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

Return on Investment
  • Delivering Infrastructure as a Service to University community. Resources are applied on research, management and education.
  • Before that, there were a lot of local data centers spread trough the University (considering all campus). Using cloud computing with CloudStack, the operational cost was significantly decreasead
  • Our need was in a low-cost product, not complex, with low maintenance, resilient, able to orchestrate a large pool of IT equipment
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

Excellent Cost Benefit Solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 07, 2016
JV
João Victor Rodrigues Soares
Manager of technical section of computing as a service
Universidade de São Paulo (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apache CloudStack
4 years of experience
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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 and Cons
  • 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.
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.
Return on Investment
  • Minimal impact at migration from the earlier solution used (Citrix CloudPortal), once both solutions have a common kernel.
  • Reduction to 0 with payment of software license.
Alternatives Considered
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.
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