First In Class, Open Source for Data-center Management
November 09, 2017
First In Class, Open Source for Data-center Management
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Ubuntu OpenStack
Ubuntu OpenStack is being used by the whole organization and beyond. It is used internally by developers to create development and integration environments. Also used with Jenkins to create a VM, deploy automatically an app and launch automated tests on it then destroy the VM. It is also used for hosting services.
- Very easy to use, learning curve is very short. Don't need to invest months of training before using it
- Well suited with Jenkins for automated tests
- Works well on large sets of heterogeneous hardware
- Support for High Availability should be better
- Commercial offerings should be more precise and clear
- Provide more help and tools to migrate from VMware to OpenStack
- ROI is high because of automated tasks like self healing
- Client satisfaction is higher because of less visible failures
- Managers do feel like we have a better control on the infrastructure
Everybody knows VMWare which is the world's number one in data center infrastructure management. OpenStack is lot lot less expensive but doesn't offer all the functionalities you have with VMWare especially for High Availability and load balancing. You should go for OpenStack if you need an easy to use solution without the need for external consultants. If you don't have the capacity to manage your own infrastructure you had better go for VMWare.