Apache CloudStack Reviews & Product Details

The CloudStack project is end user driven and well productized, available as a single installation package and has all of the key capabilities you need to build your own API orchestrated utility infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) including support for all hypervisors, an excellent ecosystem of compatible tools and products, and a community of contributors that is refreshingly free of large vendor influence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite being a small focused project that is heads-down, product and engineering focused, the Apache Foundation makes it challenging to get the word out about success stories and to attract more community. As a result CloudStack has been a popular whipping boy for analysts who are caught up in the hype of OpenStack and who don't appreciate that CloudStack solves a slightly different problem (simple and turnkey cloud infrastructure in a distinct product) whereas OpenStack provides a huge set of tools for vendors who want to build products that deliver private IaaS. Accordingly CloudStack is much less extensible and customizable than OpenStack. Making it easier to extend and integrate would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudstack is quite simple to install & configure and offers a clean GUI along with a powerful CLI and API to administer the platform.

It has a rich feature set and delivers everything that you need to run a Private or a Public Cloud.

Its VPC feature is truly fantastic and allows you to easily replicate a traditional datacenter architecture inside a cloud, making it an ideal platform for Enterprise clouds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not have a built in DR management functionality.

Sometimes features are released without thorough testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudStack has achieved do the cloud orchestration of making the complex become simple.

CloudStack is a turnkey solution that includes the entire "stack" of features most organizations want with an IaaS cloud: compute orchestration, Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, a full and open native API, resource accounting, and a first-class User Interface (UI). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could have their own PAAS in the stack or better integration with PAAS third party Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This product have excellent feature set. Compared to other concurrent products, have the best stability, support and costs by our tests. Concurrent products have difficulties to implement, is cost prohibitive or is still at too early development stages.

Because is open source software, the code can be audited and patches (to improve features or repair bugs) can be done if necessary, and shared with community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support still at an early stage of some manufacturers, some features are primarily available for OpenStack. Because of this, we have to manage some features outside cloudstack. This takes some time. But because cloudstack is at constant evolution, this gap is reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is solid. Conceptually makes sense. Less moving pieces than openstack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had problems provisioning VMs from the UI. This was ~2 years ago and we ended up not using a private cloud, but it didn't feel ready to hand over to developers to use as their dev environment since we were having random issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stability and features seems very good to me.

You can find most of the cloud features you are expecting, and you'll have a real cloud solution, not a limited, partial implementation like Digital Ocean or similar services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphic interface can be vastly improved.

It's usable but not very pretty, accessibility is terrible and it's easy to make some mistakes.

It's also not responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It just works! Instabilities in previous versions have been fixed and the system largely just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some API functionality is not reflected in the built-in UI and there are a few API calls which are missing flags which exist in the backend database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Super intuitive ux and easy setup. Stable for my needs (kvm) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The website looks nothing like the software. Seriously? https://cloudstack.apache.org

This is how you promote something:

http://www.azk.io/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

simplicity,

running on top of legacy workloads,

simplicity to upgrade from either bare metal or virtualization to fully cloud powered environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lake of new components, DBAAS, quoing as a service, automation, monitoring, metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A simple interface for the admins, developers and users. For the admin, everything is at one place and do not involve knowing too much about the components.

For the developer, its easy to participate in the community. Everyone is always helping.

For the user, the interface and UI is simple and intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Feature set is less than other competitive products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.