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CloudStack pros and cons

Vendor: Apache
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

CloudStack offers robust support for various hypervisors, enhancing interoperability and flexibility.
Its centralized design simplifies scalability, management, and troubleshooting, making it ideal for large virtual environments.
APIs in CloudStack facilitate seamless integration with external applications and allow customized cloud solutions.
CloudStack provides a multi-tenant interface with advanced networking features, which ensure security and privacy for users.
The platform continuously evolves with new features and improvements, maintaining stability and efficiency over time.

CONS

CloudStack lacks specific error messages in administration processes like creating new instances.
The VPN P2S disconnects all connections except the CloudStack environment, unlike Cisco's AnyConnect.
Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up for public cloud, not private.
A lack of easily implementable payment gateway and billing solutions limits CloudStack's 360-degree capabilities.
Removal of high-capacity virtual machines takes a long time, often failing to update VM status properly in the database.
 

CloudStack Pros review quotes

it_user674046 - PeerSpot reviewer
IaaS/Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 29, 2017
CloudStack manages infrastructure with 2-4 thousands of hosts easily.
it_user693228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect
Jun 28, 2017
CloudStack provides an easy way to have high availability (HA) of the virtual machines and helps with a better SLA.
it_user693225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 28, 2017
We chose CloudStack because we saw it with a better TCO ratio, balancing innovation, and starting the DevOps culture with a low operational overhead.
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it_user711606 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 29, 2017
CloudStack has reduced the time to market for the delivery of new products.
it_user687273 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager / Gerente de TI at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Feb 28, 2018
The platform is very simple to scale-out.​
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Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Mar 14, 2018
Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs.
it_user153084 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Mar 19, 2018
It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution.
it_user840183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization and Backup Engineer
Mar 19, 2018
CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure.
it_user840186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Mar 19, 2018
The product gives us the ability to orchestrate large virtual environments and is flexible enough to allow us to configure it for what we need. We value the flexibility of the networking feature set as well as the ability to build virtual private clouds.
it_user840522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2018
It was easy to deploy, both for PoC and production (with HA).
 

CloudStack Cons review quotes

it_user674046 - PeerSpot reviewer
IaaS/Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 29, 2017
The upgrade process can be improved further.
it_user693228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect
Jun 28, 2017
The web UI can be improved. It is too complex, and not trivial for the average user.
it_user693225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 28, 2017
More integration with third-party products (we know that OpenStack has a better level of integration).
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it_user711606 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 29, 2017
Factors that need improvement are: Visualization in terms of the resources usage. The user interface. Providing best error feedback to the users.
it_user687273 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager / Gerente de TI at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Feb 28, 2018
The absence of the feature, deploy an instance from a snapshot, is the weak point of the platform. It is a feature that everyone needs nowadays.
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Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Mar 14, 2018
The main reason why we started looking for another solution: backups, replication, HA, and dependency on secondary storage. CS is quite sensitive for infrastructure, and any kind of network disruption between CS and secondary storage leads to VM hanging.
it_user153084 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Mar 19, 2018
Lack of support for third-party software vendors such as Veeam and Zerto creates limitations on comprehensive offerings which would include backup and disaster recovery.
it_user840183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization and Backup Engineer
Mar 19, 2018
The product has evolved a lot since the first versions in which it was very complicated to do version updates, and had various problems.
it_user840186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Mar 19, 2018
The area of Apache CloudStack that could stand the most improvement is the functionality/features around the virtual routers. They can be somewhat cumbersome to deal with at times and are the least stable piece of the product.
it_user840522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2018
​The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient.