Apache CloudStack vs. HPE Morpheus

CloudStack is well suited if you want to keep the costs low and still need a reliable and robust tool to cloud virtualization orchestration. The end user interface is friendly so users can find and use functionalities quickly. Also, the newer version allows you to integrate CloudStack with external authentication using SAML for single sign-on. It can be less appropriate for an administrator that does not want to do a lot of interventions using a command line or that does not use the Linux operating system.

Incentivized

We use Morpheus and graphene to monitor our on-premise servers. A consistent tool for using across servers/VMs, databases and networking equipment would provide a wholistic monitoring experience

Incentivized

• New functionalities
• Fixing bugs
• Private and public clouds

• Copious native 3rd party integrations.
• Ties into multiple public and private clouds for single management plane.
• True multi-tenancy.

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• Maintenance tools
• Less command line interventions
• Server logs not so friendly
• Upgrades are not so straightforward
• The graphical interface performance in big environments can get a little bit slow

Incentivized

• More dashboard/visualization capabilities

Incentivized

We have always been able to reach the support organization at Morpheus on the rare event we needed them. They have been nothing but helpful.

Incentivized

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

We previously were using VRA. VRA, while some of the new versions look interesting is hard for both administration as well as end user consumption.

Incentivized

• Minimal impact at migration from the earlier solution used (Citrix CloudPortal), once both solutions have a common kernel.
• Reduction to 0 with payment of software license.

• It has allowed us to shorten operational time that it took to provide resources to teams.
• There is better cost visibility in the different cloud solutions.

Incentivized