Orchestrate Infrastructure at scale with Platform9 Managed Openstack.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're using Platform9 Managed OpenStack to orchestrate KVM hosts and Leveraging Platform9 Managed Kubernetes Clusters on top of it. Earlier we were using Opensource Openstack and it was hard to find problems and fix the issues. In Platform9 they provide Remote Support and monitor the Openstack Cluster remotely which significantly reduced pain.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Most Important Features
- Simplicity of its UI, There aren't complexities in UI like Openstack.
- Quality of Support. Most of the time Platform9 Support responds quickly which we really appreciate.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
Ubuntu OpenStack
