Red Hat CloudForms Reviews

We use the solution to provision servers. 

I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs.  

Our company used the solution as a pre-defined server and internal cloud. We automated infrastructure as a code and delivered it to the user portal to meet logins and request machines. 

After the machine was created, we integrated with Ansible Towers to install applications or services that sat on top of the machine. 

The intent was to see our entire environment and replace all manual processes. We wanted one dashboard to handle all daily tasks. We had 10,000 users with 1,000 of them engaged in installation and testing. 

Users found the solution simple to use but it never launched as a production. Five team members handled development and management before the solution was decommissioned.

The solution was beneficial because it gave us a full view of our infrastructure and the ability to calibrate each team's requests or machines. 

The most valuable features of Red Hat CloudForms are the benefit of the collective functionality.

Red Hat CloudForms could improve by allowing more customization of reports. We have to do a lot of coding to accomplish what we want. Additionally, the compatibility with the multi-cloud could improve. The latter versions of the solution removed Google support and the cost comparison between other clouds was high.

We manage platforms like NETGEAR, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware. Therefore, we need an orchestration platform to manage all of these platforms. After researching and evaluating several products in the market, we found that Red Hat CloudForms can help us resolve this issue. We understand that it is a good platform that allows us to manage mixed platforms, create virtual machines, and monitor our infrastructure efficiently. It also enables us to delegate access to other administrators for creating cloud solutions with the tenant platform.

We can annotate CRM data with discounts for each tenant and separate the platforms from the tenants. However, there are some limitations in terms of network association. We cannot associate a tenant's network with the available network in the upper sector, which is a significant issue. Additionally, the Webex platform is not currently being maintained, and there are no viable alternatives to Red Hat CloudForms that are as secure and reliable.

The problem is that the platform requires it to be maintained and updated. Also, a few cases are still pending with the Red Hat support team since they are not closed yet. Such areas need to be developed by Red Hat's team members.

One of the other areas that need improvement in the solution is that I need to get a proper response from the technical support.

We were using Red Hat CloudForms for testing and evaluation of construction and deconstruction of cloud infrastructure.

Red Hat CloudForms did not help the way our organization functions.

Since it is an open-source software, the integration with other open-source components is seamless. If you're going in, it all depends on which stack you're selecting. If you're selecting open stack, if you want to use microservices, or you want to integrate Kubernetes Docker with Red Hat, this solution is probably the first choice to go with. 

The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware.

The solution should be made more user-friendly with plug-and-play functionality. It will help companies adopt it quicker.

The optimization of the solution is quite interesting. It means we can prepare a bunch of VMs, and of course with self-service provisioning.

The solution is still quite immature.

Those CloudForms and similar products are very capable if you are some sort of programmer. It has the infrastructure, however, to actually make it work, you have to program it yourself inside the platform. It's okay as a platform, however, it is not a ready-made product. You have to do a lot of work.

The product is expensive. It would be ideal if they could work on their pricing model.

What I expect from Red Hat is for it to make configurations for common use cases. Red Hat CloudForms allows you to integrate with external sources. Yet, if you want to integrate something, then you have to program it in Ruby in order to integrate. If you want some features with this integration, they also have to be programmed. I know that with other products, it is more of a point and click integration. Often, also, there are knowledge bases or use cases that are already present as point-and-click functionality. 

The integration with other open-source tools is pretty good. It integrates particularly well with Kubernates Docker.

They are a very mature product.

Because the solution needs to integrate with other products that surround it, there is a lot of configuration required, and this can be quite complex. It's not as easy as it is with, for example, VMware.

The solution needs to be more user-friendly. They need to make it more plug-and-play.