Apache CloudStack Reviews & Product Details

The GUI is very user-friendly, and the system is robust. It offers a wide range of storage protocols like NFS, RBD, ISCSI, etc. Although it does not come with a billing system like other open-source cloud platforms, it is a great platform to build a cloud system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not come with a billing system, so if you want to commercialize your cloud platform, you would have to search for a billing system, and those are generally paid to use with CloudStack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache CloudStack is robust virtualization management capabilities, support for multiple hypervisors, scalability, high availability features, advanced networking capabilities, a user-friendly self-service portal, API-driven architecture, resource management, and billing functionalities, and its active open-source community and ecosystem. These aspects contribute to its popularity as a cloud infrastructure management platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few potential limitations:

+ Complexity of Deployment

+ Limited Public Cloud Offerings

+ Documentation and Support

+ User Interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compute architecture and it's robustness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much on disadvantages, because this was my first cloud journey Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We operate and manage several cloud infrastructure services both for ourselves and several client enterprises. Using several solutions for the management and deployment of virtualized resources, including VMware, Xenserver, and OpenStack, our Goto solution that we use internally is CloudStack.

CloudStack not only integrates well with the various forward facing customer billing and management solutions we use such as WHMCS, HostBill, and Blesta, but can manage virtualized resources directly and even works well sitting atop and management vSphere, vCloud Director, etc., and Xenserver - so many of the layers that only manage services under a particular virtualization technology can still be used directly or managed by CloudStack.

We highly recommend CloudStack as a solution for the management of enterprise resources in the cloud and use it everyday ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike the freedom that OpenStack offers in Enterprise Infrastructure design, CloudStack is somewhat more rigid in the way you can deploy it, although almost all customization is still possible, it's intended to launch and use in particular ways that OpenStack leaves to the engineering team to determine for themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In a big environment (a lot of virtual machines and storage pools), listing resources are a little bit slow.

The section for firewall rules and port forwarding also presents some slowness that may disturb usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

few vendors to create interfaces to integrate products. Currently they prefer to integrate with competitor orchestrator. 3rd party integration is poor. IPV6 implementation is incomplete and needs more attention of developers. The Virtual router may be better with more options of VPN and VPC advanced. The quota service must be improved urgently. The snapshot management needs to be more efficient because overloads the ACS in large environments with a lot of users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes you can find undocumented bugs that can compromise the entire infrastructure. Once you don't have an official support channel, you should try to find out the source of problem by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudStack it's 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be sincere, the fact of the main manufacturers of the sector do not are involved with CloudStack is a big issue. But the problem aren't on CloudStack, I think is a manufacturer problem, because the manufacturers haven't engagement with this tool that's deployed in many Cloud Providers and largest clouds around the world. The manufacturers try to drive you to an expensive orchestration tools or even worst, drive you to a immature solution that we can't see great use cases concrete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cloudstack interface is user friendly compared to other open source applications available.

It's quite easy to setup and handle, it also has a big user email base where most of the issues are discussed making it a bit easy for troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It fails in the area where instead of making stuff that works bug free it introduces new ones with every minor or major release.

It doesn't have any option to support new GPGPU grid hardware.

The log files could be more descriptive, it doesn't always point to the cause. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best Infrastructure as a Service on premise product, it is easy to implement, easy to use and easy to administrate. The product is very hypervisor agnostic so you can choose with

The CloudStack community is very dedicated and accessible, so it is also easy to contribute with improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product need to improve UI for better mobile utilization. As an abstraction layer orchestration removes some good features that already exists in direct virtualization platforms (XenServer, KVM, VMware and Hyper-V), such as RBAC (Role Based Access Control) and deep monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.