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TrustRadius Insights for Apache CloudStack are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users have made several recommendations for CloudStack based on their experiences. They suggest using CloudStack for managing cloud services, as it provides an effective way to streamline cloud infrastructure. CloudStack is also highly recommended for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and private cloud needs, offering the necessary tools and capabilities to create and maintain a secure and scalable environment. Users advise starting with basic services and consulting the installation guide to ensure a smooth implementation of CloudStack. Overall, users find that CloudStack meets their needs in terms of development, administration, managing cloud services, IaaS, private clouds, and more. They appreciate its simplicity, reliability, and ability to handle enterprise-level workloads effectively.

CloudStack Reviews

1 Review
India

Good for Everything

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apache CloudStack offers a solid documentation and a large community for users and developers that make troubleshooting less difficult. Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good and simple usability.

You can deploy new virtual machines with a few clicks.

Due to big and engaged community, updates are available frequently in order to solve bugs and improve features.

Is an open-source software that is very important to build a low cost solution.

The orchestration architecture is simple. With only one server it is possible to have a cloud orchestrator, provisioning network, compute and disk. Updates are often published. User authentication can be based in SAML 2.0. This product is open source and is possible to create features as your needs. Good features can be submitted to the community to be released in next versions. Almost all functions to maintenance are available in API.

CloudStack is a simple monolithic agnostic orchestration tool that you need a couple hours to study, design and implement to have huge result, an entire IaaS experience. Because it's simple the troubleshooting is very easy and the providers can delivery a great SLA to their clients

Apache CloudStack an open source solution that allows us keep in touch with the worldwide community of contributors whose maintain its source code and working actively of creation of new functionalities, fixing bugs and helping other users solve their problems. The software also permits a quick scalability of hardware. For end users, the interface provides the experience of total control of your resources as if they had mini data-center


Pros

  • New functionalities
  • Fixing bugs
  • Private and public clouds

Cons

  • Sometimes you can find undocumented bugs
  • It fails in the area where instead of making stuff that works bug free it introduces new ones with every minor or major release
  • More Rigid

Likelihood to Recommend

Whether our clients are VPS hosting providers or operate private cloud infrastructure for their internal enterprise requirements, CloudStack provides solutions in an easy to implement and operate way that is simple to provide training for.

The learning curve for our customesr adopting CloudStack for the management of their cloud infrastructure is shallow, enabling our clients to come up to speed quickly without having to outsource their administrative functions any longer than necessary

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Nidhin Chandradas
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Genesis software technologies (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
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Apache CloudStack
2 years of experience
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