We performed a comparison between CloudStack and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"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."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"My company could implement a lot of customizations and integration with load balancers and DNS. When we started using CloudStack, we didn't have that integration, so we developed that. We could fix anything missing in the solution."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is access to environment via console through separate browser window."
"The platform is very simple to scale-out."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"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."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"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."
"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."
"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."
"The area of Apache CloudStack that could stand the most improvement is the functionality/features around the virtual routers. They can be somewhat cumbersome to deal with at times and are the least stable piece of the product."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Automation.
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