CloudStack vs HPE Eucalyptus [EOL] comparison

"The product gives us the ability to orchestrate large virtual environments and is flexible enough to allow us to configure it for what we need. We value the flexibility of the networking feature set as well as the ability to build virtual private clouds."

"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."

"Everything in CloudStack works effectively."

"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."

"It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."

"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."

"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."

"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the interface on the console."

"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."

"A technology upgrade is one item which could be improved upon a lot."

"​The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."

"Companies need to be knowledgeable about cloud technology. It's not for novice users."

"The number of contributors to this solution is relatively small compared to other solutions. However, if more frequent users of CloudStack contribute to the open-source community, it will significantly enhance the overall community experience and make it more useful for everyone involved."

"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."

"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."

"The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it."

"The customization should be improved."

"The solution is open-source and free."

"CloudStack is an open source solution, so you don't need to pay anything for it. When our company develops something specially for CloudStack, it is donated to the Apache Software Foundation and provided to anyone that wants to use it."

"There is no license, so the product is free unless you are buying professional technical support services."

"​Give an effort to planning. If possible, contract a specialized consultant company for the initial setup and knowledge transfer.​​"

"CloudStack is an open-source product."

"It is a 100% open-source solution needing just an Apache license. Also, there are no hidden fees to be paid."

"The Apache CloudStack is open source, so you do not have licenses to purchase."

"As far as I know, CS is still free of charge. If you want to pay some money, Citrix Cloud Platform is based on CS, I think. As for hypervisors – everything as usual, you need to pay for VMware and vCenter. As for XenServer, recently they changed the free feature list, so you may need to pay some money to get useful features like XenMotion."