Canonical OpenStack vs. HPE Morpheus

If you need to support diverse infrastructures then you need OpenStack. Also if you can't afford to pay costly licenses for commercial products then it is a no brainer. If you need to quickly recover for failures OpenStack will provide self healing and automatic load balancing! Don't use it if your hardware is homogeneous.

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

• Very easy to use, learning curve is very short. Don't need to invest months of training before using it
• Well suited with Jenkins for automated tests
• Works well on large sets of heterogeneous hardware

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

Incentivized

• More customizable options while choosing virtual machine configurations would be great.
• To have regular online learning sessions directly from Ubuntu OpenStack experts [to] help users and for those who implement it.
• Giving admin more control on what privileges they can grant to their users.

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

Ubuntu OpenStack has better horizontal scaling as it is designed to have open IaaS infrastructure. As Ubuntu OpenStack scales horizontally, it is designed to scale on hardware without specific requirements. Ubuntu OpenStack offers [a] rich set of services to build, manage, orchestrate, and provision a cloud with great auto scaling capabilities. Hence OpenStack administrators can be confident and relaxed in managing them.

Incentivized

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

• Lighter on initial spending for the organization.
• Deployments which have no vendor locking makes management decisions easier.
• Support from great community saved lot of time for engineers managing it.

Incentivized

• 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