Red Hat OpenStack Platform Reviews & Product Details

Telco Cloud and data plane reliable. Integrates well in ETSI Model archiecture with VNF Manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrades are disruptive and very complex. Release life cycle is very short for carrier grade use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Production grade Openstack deployments and upgrades (especially upgrades) are a cloud operator's nightmare. RHOSP takes the pain away since the Redhat engineers do the heavy lifting for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Understandably due to the amount of testing that is required, the RHOSP release is significantly behind the community edition release. RHOSP is currently at W release whilst the CE release is at Antelope and soon to release Bob. The cost of RHOSP is not for the faint hearted either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using OpenStack in all the company virtualized clouds, I can say OpenStack is the best NFVI platform we had operated even with the cons I mentioned in my review below. OpenStack provides great performance and allows the easiest cloud and service expansion/scalability and overall the best choice for critical service and carrier-grade service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have OpenStack Version 13 installed 2 Years ago, our Cloud mainly depends on Red Hat product portfolio including Red Hat Ceph Storage, Satellite, Smart management, etc.., what I would say is that the upgrade path from v13 to 16 is very complicated even all the integrated products are Red Hat. The release upgrade has a lot of steps and each one takes a lot of time while the product life cycle is too short, it's not a streaght forward upgrade and has many workarounds. I would recommend Red Hat make some effort in this area and make release upgrades easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can integrate different 3rd party vendor applications with OpenStack, highly secured, and most of the services are free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult to set up.

All services cant be available through GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In our Company, we run 3 private cloud hosts for the IT applications, and are geographically distributed all of them are RedHat OpenStack. So I have a not little experience in Cloud operations with many other products, So I can say OSP is the best Cloud PaaS I have used. what I like in Red Hat OpenStack is that we can manage distributed compute node with one control zone using DCN feature thats available starting OSP version 13. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OSP is such an amazing platform but mainly I have 2 concerns, first for the HORIZON component I just advise making the GUI user interface more powerful and adding all the features that's can be done through the OVERCLOUD CLI to the Horizon GUI. the second is related to major release upgrade and batches I want the upgrade process is to be minimized and easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat OSP is the most reliable and stable cloud platform that can deploy over any infrastructure hardware, So with OSP you can combine and manage different hardware resources, networking, and Storage. OSP includes many modules that help in deploying run, rebuilding instances, and managing the infrastructure and the NFV over the hypervisor layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat has to add a self-monitoring component to be part of OpenStack and don't rely on third-party software. also, make the deployment and upgrades easier. also if I would say I hope Redhat to make the OSP life cycle more extended for the releases end of extended support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Redhat OpenStack is essential for enterprises because -

1. It is relatively cheaper than other cloud management systems (CMS) like VMware, Oracle, etc

2. Community-wide support & availability of support personnel in the market.

3. Security patches & additional features included as compared to the community version of OpenStack

4. Easy GUI & CLI to have a steep learning curve for the engineers who are maintaining the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Frequent version upgrade which is very difficult for the customer to follow because the generally OpenStack is adopted by mission-critical applications like healthcare, Telcos, Banks, Govt organizations, etc.

2. Openstack is a combination of multiple individual projects (nova, neutron, cinder, etc) & so the accountability of fixing a software bug is somewhat dissolved as compared to a single organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform is amazing while supporting our day-to-day operations for a long time neer to 6 years. It is great in terms of security and commands of execution time and operational cost. It is speedier enough to support carrier-grade traffic!!. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Red Hat OpenStack platform could be better if this comes with a handy guide to set it up. For a fresher. Also, one comment for the user's privilege while creating a new project has some limitation on making a specific assigned to the storage to determine if it is local or external. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and highly scalable. Good product support too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashboard UI needs a few minor improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The services provided by OpenStack along with the APIs to access them and integrate with code is the best part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RedHat OpenStack takes huge memory to run, so it required devices with high configuration. But that is okay if we are building a private cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.