Apache CloudStack Reviews

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.

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.

We wanted an open-source application to build a cloud platform and provision VMs for deployments, and the cloud stack turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. We can now create hundreds of VMs on just a few bare metal servers used as hosts.

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.

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.

Make sure all of your existing infrastructure management tools are working correctly (deploy, spin up, manage, snapshot, etc.) before layering CloudStack on top of them or having it manage your resources directly.

As you add layers of complexity on top of existing ones, the broken parts fly further when something isn't right, making it more difficult to ascertain particular problems.

Whether our clients are VPS hosting providers or operate private cloud infrastructure for their internal enterprise requirements, CloudStack provides solutions in an easy to implement and operate way that is simple to provide training for.

The learning curve for our customesr adopting CloudStack for the management of their cloud infrastructure is shallow, enabling our clients to come up to speed quickly without having to outsource their administrative functions any longer than necessary.

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).

Could have their own PAAS in the stack or better integration with PAAS third party

The cloud orchestration, providing a wide range of features to use resources in the Data Center.

There are a lot of benefits but the best one for me is that become possible share the resources from data center with users by using friendly interface and a wide range of features.

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.

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.

An important point to be considered is to plan carefully all the details of your infrastructure (network, storage, servers) that will be implemented now as well as possible extensions of services.

We have to provide an infrastructure of private cloud in our university in order to supply the demand of virtual resources of our researchers. Instead of each one of them to deploy a small datacenter in their labs, we can centralize all hardware in datacenters with redundancy, reliability and all services of SLA.

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.

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.

You should compare and try different solutions. Remember that manufactures will always try to recommend other solutions (frequently proprietary), but this is not a rule.

Cloudstack is in the same level of quality.

Delivering IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to University community. Resources are applied on research, management and education.

Before that, there were a lot of local data centers spread trough the University (considering all campus). Using cloud computing with CloudStack, the operational cost was significantly decreasead.

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.

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.

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Delivering IaaS to the University of Sao Paulo users brings immediate benefits to the university goals, including researches that need computer resources, with Cloud Stack university faculty don´t need to worry with infrastructure details and have more time to dedicated to their real jobs.

It just works! Instabilities in previous versions have been fixed and the system largely just works.

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.

My employer provides a public IaaS Cloud using CloudStack for hundreds of customers with tens of thousands of virtual machines. This has allowed us to provide customers with a burst-able Cloud to extend their existing physical solutions hosted in our datacenters as well as bringing in new Cloud-first customers who are focused on the agility a Cloud provides them.

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

It does not have a built in DR management functionality.

Sometimes features are released without thorough testing

Look at cloudstack if you want a system that simply works without a fuss. Its not as fancy as openstack in terms of features, but checks all boxes as far as IaaS essentials are concerned.

We have been able to consolidate and optimize our datacenter and reduce our datacenter sprawl significantly.

We are able to provision resources on-demand for users... earlier to could take upto 4 weeks.

Wea are able to automate regular functions like backups etc that have reduced administrative overload.

The simplicity of the product. Literally, depending on your skills at automation, in under 2 hours you can have a fully functional cloud.

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

Following the install guide and it will work.

As a VAR/MSP, a cloud offering for our customers that is reliable and simple. Simplicity when deploying tenants.

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.

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.

The Apache CloudStack is an open source orchestration software very mature, very simple to design, implement and operate, as consultant and cloud provider CTO I fully recommend Apache CloudStack to many environments.

The University, my first large implementation, had a big issue with 149 small data centers spread on São Paulo State, this data centers costs to university were very high, the consolidation idea in two data centers were awesome, but were worried with the management, so we adopted ACS to management of all 576 physical hosts. Now a days the university is delivering IaaS for all staff, students, teachers and researchers, they are using these resources to delivery services to their clients and have a great results in research area.