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CloudStack pros and cons

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4.0 out of 5

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CloudStack Pros review quotes

Marco Sinhoreli

Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue

Nov 6, 2022

I have been impressed by CloudStack's most recent updates around Kubernetes. In particular, they have worked with Kubernetes to support the Cluster API, and you can now easily integrate Kubernetes into CloudStack and get access to a lot of good features.

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Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

May 10, 2019

You can use a single API to get things done, rather than multiple APIs on multiple modules.

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Wido Den Hollander

Community Ambassador at 42on

Feb 17, 2023

Over the years, we have valued CloudStack for its stability.

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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Feb 14, 2023

When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective.

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Oleksandr Rybchenko

Project Manager at EPAM Systems

Mar 14, 2018

Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs.

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Paresh Tripathi

Cloud Solutions Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 20, 2018

It has become easy to deploy new devices with no or minimal hardware changes. Now, a user can be ready to use a firewall within a few minutes, as compared to the traditional physical model which involved purchase, shipping, hardware configuration, cabling, power, etc.

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Assistant Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Feb 25, 2023

We like the virtualization capabilities.

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Cloud Architect at Key Information Systems

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.

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Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 20, 2018

Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features.

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Oleksii Kyianytsia

System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 20, 2018

Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits.

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CloudStack Cons review quotes

Marco Sinhoreli

Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue

Nov 6, 2022

We recognize that CloudStack is an easy-to-use cloud management platform and, in my opinion, there has been a large number of improvements in the past few years, particular when it comes to the modern UI and overall ease of management. However, I believe that CloudStack needs to grow their marketing in the commercial side. They don't have a great piece of market share right now.

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GV

Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

May 10, 2019

I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance.

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Wido Den Hollander

Community Ambassador at 42on

Feb 17, 2023

I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved.

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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Feb 14, 2023

The number of contributors to this solution is relatively small compared to other solutions. However, if more frequent users of CloudStack contribute to the open-source community, it will significantly enhance the overall community experience and make it more useful for everyone involved.

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Oleksandr Rybchenko

Project Manager at EPAM Systems

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.

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Paresh Tripathi

Cloud Solutions Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 20, 2018

This product needs a lot improvement on the development side. Every new version introduces new bugs. It lacks many features needed for NFV like DPDK, SR-IOV support, etc.

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Assistant Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Feb 25, 2023

Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users.

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Cloud Architect at Key Information Systems

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.

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Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 20, 2018

For time consuming operations like storage migrations, volume Snapshot restore and the like, we faced issues like MySQL operations timing out and status update failures. Those areas needs improvement.

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Oleksii Kyianytsia

System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 20, 2018

VPN P2S is cutting all connections except the CloudStack environment for the user when he is connected. I would like to have VPN like Cisco's AnyConnect.

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