We performed a comparison between CloudBolt and CloudStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's biggest advantage is flexibility"
"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."
"The initial deployment was super easy."
"Role-based access control and application blueprinting."
"I find the self-service features valuable."
"Valuable features include that it is a user-friendly portal, VPN P2S and S2S possibilities, and it's easy to manage accounts and limits."
"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."
"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."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"CloudStack is simple to stand up and get off the ground in a hurry. Its centralized design allows for easier troubleshooting when compared to OpenStack. Out of the box, it’s very well suited for white labeling and IaaS."
"The platform is very simple to scale-out."
"You can manage infrastructure with a few people, since product is monolithic. We had three engineers (storage, virtual, Linux admins) only. Also, CS supports different flavours of hypervisors."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."
"Could increase the number of integrations and add more out-of-the-box work flows."
"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."
"The management of SaaS must be improved."
"The area of integrating on-prem and cloud needs improvement."
"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."
"My teammates have complained about the upgrade. The source code had massive files that had to be merged with our own development to upgrade to the latest version of CloudStack. It was quite painful for them. CloudStack could add some cost management tools to give me some control over the costs associated with the number of users of my services."
"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."
"CS has very descriptive logging, and every time I faced issues and asked for help, I didn’t get any reply from the community. Reason? Its quite obvious. CS runs on specific environments, unique to each case. So, unless it is a functional issue of CS, nobody can help you. All issues were resolved by myself going through logs. This is another reason why you need smart enough people to manage it. Engineers must have knowledge of hypervisors and understand how CS interacts with them."
"The absence of the feature, deploy an instance from a snapshot, is the weak point of the platform. It is a feature that everyone needs nowadays."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
CloudBolt is ranked 21st in Cloud Management with 8 reviews while CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews. CloudBolt is rated 8.4, while CloudStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CloudBolt writes "Should be made considerably easier to use, though it offers much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". CloudBolt is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Automation and ServiceNow, whereas CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cloudify. See our CloudBolt vs. CloudStack report.
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