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CloudBolt vs HPE OneSphere comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt
Ranking in Cloud Management
21st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (31st)
HPE OneSphere
Ranking in Cloud Management
44th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.8%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE OneSphere is 1.6%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CloudBolt1.8%
HPE OneSphere1.6%
Other96.6%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control
The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.
it_user781113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Data Strategy
Worked right the first time out-of-the-box; we were provisioning to AWS within 10 minutes
Ironically, most of the features that we might have wanted to see were already introduced in the product announcement today, from what we saw in the beta, which was kind of cool. You can't come to market unless you have Azure support, and Azure was all over every slide we saw, so that was pretty cool. A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced. It is way too easy to provision a VM onto a public cloud, wide open to everybody. So, there are a couple of issues there. We are obviously going to talk with the product teams and the architects about some of those things; a handful of things here and there. Most of the things we were looking for were already included. Things that we had requested a month ago, we are now seeing them here: Azure Stack integration and the OneView integration. These were the things we were saying, "Hey, if these were there, it would be really cool. We could use this." All of a sudden, "Oh hey, guess what is going to be at launch?" I am very eager to get my hands on the next version of this product, and to see what may or may not be missing.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product takes care of a hybrid cloud environment and it helps me maintain control and insight across various cloud platforms."
"We were able to save enough from reduced support cost associated with maintaining and operating our previous cloud management platform within months to pay for CloudBolt."
"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."
"I find the self-service features valuable."
"Role-based access control and application blueprinting."
"The solution's biggest advantage is flexibility"
"Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months."
"CloudBolt has very good stability; we tested everything on the platform, and it was very good, so we started a partnership with them."
"OneSphere being a SaaS platform, you do not have to deal with those issues, it is in quickly and you can begin utilizing it right away."
"With all the time and investment in all the competitive products, still it makes them not even a competitor anymore, with how this works."
 

Cons

"I had an issue with the scheduling feature of CloudBolt, but I'm not sure if that's been fixed in the new version."
"To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared to newer cloud management platforms."
"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."
"The MCP is still at a very early stage in CloudBolt."
"The management of SaaS must be improved."
"CloudBolt can be improved. It needs way more customizations when it comes to provisioning itself."
"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."
"CloudBolt can be improved in areas such as initial workflow design, product complexity, and customization."
"We are looking to be able to set a hard budget for the workspaces or projects."
"A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node."
"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten because the solution is expensive."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudBolt?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing includes that CloudBolt currently offers a free version of its cloud management platform for up to 100 managed resources; this was announced on...
What needs improvement with CloudBolt?
CloudBolt can be improved in areas such as initial workflow design, product complexity, and customization.
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