We performed a comparison between CloudStack and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 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."It gives us the ability to manage and segregate a guest network with openvSwitch and VLAN IDs."
"The initial implementation process was quite good."
"It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution."
"Killer features for me were: support for many hypervisors, ability to match business logic, "everything in one box," available APIs."
"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."
"We like the virtualization capabilities."
"When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective."
"You can build your own cloud and make it customizable with APIs."
"If you're using Oracle products, you should definitely use Oracle Enterprise Manager because it is central to product management."
"The report feature is very useful."
"Using Enterprise Manager, I was able to create user profiles for all the instances that have the same profile. Secondly, it's easier to manage performance, to automate the AWR reports to run every half an hour, or hour. Then, if you have a performance issue you just open the report and you can see what was running the last one hour, the SQL statements, or what was causing the performance issues."
"Advisors provide quick access to Insight and best practice information for performance tuning and configuration."
"Once this solution is configured, it will help administrators centralize their management of the environment."
"We have been satisfied with technical support."
"You can create a system group (database, application, and web server), so you can monitor performance as a system."
"Of course, that you can manage and create the backup strategies from a central environment for all your environments, so you don’t have to do so on each database. You can set up the policy you want for each database, but you do it from a central environment."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"Lack of support for third-party software vendors such as Veeam and Zerto creates limitations on comprehensive offerings which would include backup and disaster recovery."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"I think that container technology in CloudStack is an area that needs to be improved."
"We recognize that CloudStack is an easy-to-use cloud management platform and, in my opinion, there has been a large number of improvements in the past few years, particular when it comes to the modern UI and overall ease of management. However, I believe that CloudStack needs to grow their marketing in the commercial side. They don't have a great piece of market share right now."
"The Windows hosts do not get their hostnames from cloud-init."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure."
"Sometimes the alerts are coming a bit late, for example, an alert for the CPU. It depends on the threshold that you have, how long you want to check the CPU of the machine. I got some faulty alerts with Data Guard. I had stopped a synchronization for maintenance and then I re-synchronized Oracle Data Guard. It took some time to appear in Enterprise Manager and send me the right notification that Data Guard was up and running and synchronizing. I realized this because I went directly into the database to check the status of Data Guard, and it was telling me that it was running okay. But in Enterprise Manager, it needed some more time to update the interface."
"I've had both positive and negative experiences with support. Its compatibility with the rest of the products in the market is less."
"The product lacks in the area of database, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There is a lack from the point of view of monitoring on the system. The performance of the system and its resources are things that I think can be improved. There needs to be real-time monitoring available on the solution."
"There is a lot of information required to deal with the vulnerabilities in the product on a timely basis, for which the documentation part is not available."
"The response time of the solution's technical support team is too long and should be improved."
"The initial setup depends on your experience. For example, for people who are doing it for the first time, it's probably difficult."
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CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews while Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is ranked 16th in Cloud Management with 34 reviews. CloudStack is rated 8.0, while Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is rated 8.2. 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 Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control writes "A robust product to deal with application performance enhancemen". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VMware Aria Automation, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is most compared with AWS Control Tower, IBM Turbonomic and VMware Aria Operations. See our CloudStack vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control report.
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