CloudStack Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

The simplicity of the product. Literally, depending on your skills at automation, in under 2 hours you can have a fully functional cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not Much. A very solid product. I run production on Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack and test/dev on Apache CloudStack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Single Product that includes Management, Performance Metrics; Easy to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of capability to detailed triaging and Monolithic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installation/setup of CloudStack is clear, quicker and easy. Easy to administer and create the VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of flexibility and has to improve in the baremetal stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform has lot of flexibility and is very rich in features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the features are not very intuitive. Also found many bugs since we started implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity and the the robustness of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to integrate it with containers lxc wise but until today I didn't found many documentation about it. Same for different network use cases it's not that easy to integrate the networking part in already existing setups. But that goes for every private cloud imo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Beeing able to deploy apps accross zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The part I dislike the is that, as far as I am concerned, there is a lack of billing tools for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

open source and collaborative development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

updates were slow but this has improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.