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Red Hat OpenStack Platform vs. SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)

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    Red Hat OpenStack Platform

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat OpenStack Platform is a cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, organizes those resources into clouds, and manages them so users can access what they need—when they need it.N/A

    SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASUSE OpenStack Cloud (currently EOL) was used deploy and manage heterogeneous cloud infrastructure for provisioning development, test and production workloads. The service has been discontinued and unsupported since 2020.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Red Hat
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    SUSE
    Chose SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)
    Both of these have equal capabilities in creating and spawning VMs. Both are opensource and very well suited for customers who are in need of building and maintaining their own private clouds on their own on premises network infrastructures. In comparison, SUSE OpenStack Cloud …
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    8.0
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    Red Hat
    Best suited for - any organization where you have people who already have expertise on OpenStack, Linux & IP networking. Otherwise, the maintenance & operations will be difficult. When the number of deployed VMs reaches its capacity, it becomes very difficult to manage Red Hat OpenStack because there are no in-built fault management & performance management tools available within Red Hat OpenStack. Not suited for - Organizations where people have a culture of working on automated GUI-based tools. Here VMware wins over Red Hat OpenStack. Also where you have mission-critical applications where downtime cannot be tolerated.
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    SUSE
    We host many VMs on our data centers for various customers using SUSE OpenStack Cloud. It makes it easier to host them on their own private servers for creating on premises private cloud servers. It does this job very well.
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    Pros
    Red Hat
    • Scaling of application components (VMs).
    • Managing the networking between virtual machines.
    • Management of VNFs & the underlying infrastructure.
    • Availability & uptime of VMs because of features like VM migration & evacuation.
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    SUSE
    • It is opensource and hence pocket friendly.
    • Was the first enterprise OpenStack cloud distribution.
    • Makes hosting lot of VMs on cloud easier.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
    • User management really needs improvement - when compared to AWS or GCP.
    • Security of the overall platform needs to be improved.
    • The whole architecture needs to be modular which is not. Ex - Upgrading any particular component (nova, neutron, cinder) should be possible without upgrading the whole Red Hat OpenStack version.
    • The creation of HEAT templates for complex applications is still a challenge & has a dependency on external tools.
    • Stack creation still requires parameters modification at controllers & compute because of the complex nova-scheduler algorithm.
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    SUSE
    • Maintenance.
    • Customer support can be improved.
    • Updates can be made faster.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    Only because of low cost & zero licensing of Red Hat OpenStack
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    SUSE
    Both of these have equal capabilities in creating and spawning VMs. Both are opensource and very well suited for customers who are in need of building and maintaining their own private clouds on their own on premises network infrastructures. In comparison, SUSE OpenStack Cloud is little behind in terms of providing faster updates. It also has room for improvement in terms of providing support.
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    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • Saved CAPEX for sure (I can't quote a figure).
    • Saved Opex also - because a large support community is already available.
    • Increased complexity of system setup though.
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    SUSE
    • Being opensource, it is pocket friendly.
    • Few customers are happy with its performance.
    • Private clouds with SUSE OpenStack makes secure private clouds.
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