CloudStack vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

Apache and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Apache is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2, while Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.1. Apache holds a 3.4% mindshare in CM, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

CloudStack and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control compete in the cloud management solutions category. CloudStack has an upper hand in pricing and support, while Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is regarded superior for its robust features.

Features: CloudStack supports diverse hypervisors and provides zone-based setups, easing the management of geographically distributed data centers. It prides itself on offering customizable solutions due to its open-source nature, and flexibility in networking, building virtual private clouds. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control excels with integrated management for Oracle databases, middleware, and offers extensive monitoring features. The product's comprehensive environment suits Oracle-centric ecosystems.

Room for Improvement: CloudStack can enhance API support and documentation to appeal to a broader developer community. Additional native integration with advanced automated tools could also complement its existing features. Improved graphical interfaces for ease of use might heighten its appeal. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control could benefit from reducing initial setup complexity. Enhancing non-Oracle compatibility would make it more versatile. Improving customer feedback mechanisms could further shape its robust infrastructure for client needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CloudStack boasts quick and straightforward deployment processes, making it appealing for businesses desiring rapid implementation. Its accessible customer support also eases troubleshooting. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control requires more thorough planning due to its array of integrated tools, despite well-detailed documentation and specialized support enhancing the deployment quality for those willing to invest in it.

Pricing and ROI: CloudStack offers cost savings through its open-source framework with lower initial expenses, guaranteeing a solid ROI for smaller scale cloud deployments. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comes with a higher upfront cost, yet promises substantial ROI from its advanced feature set for enterprises heavily invested in Oracle infrastructure, where its toolsets offer unparalleled management capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

CloudStack

Ranking in Cloud Management

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Enterprise Manager C...

Ranking in Cloud Management

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudStack is 3.4%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
CloudStack	3.4%
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control	0.9%
Other	95.7%

Cloud Management

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Tharun Kumar Reddy Thamatam

Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Infosys

Achieving seamless infrastructure management with optimized network and user access controls

I believe enhancements could be made in CloudStack, particularly in the management servers. I had the opportunity to collaborate with one of the Apache CloudStack developers, leading to the installation of additional agents for better information retrieval from hypervisors. We implemented configurations, ensuring consistency across hosts and VMs. We also utilized Ansible or YAML files to automate password upgrades during patching activities and database management, showcasing our customization efforts for improvement. For future releases, it would be beneficial if Apache enhanced CloudStack by integrating alerting systems directly. We've had instances where hypervisors experienced overloads without prior alerts, so proactive alerts within the tool would better prepare us for addressing issues swiftly, preventing disruption in business operations. A portal summarizing system metrics alongside alert capabilities would greatly enhance our operational efficiency.

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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

A robust product to deal with application performance enhancemen

It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are no issues once you install the application, and it works smoothly, meaning there are no issues related to onboarding the application according to a user's chosen profile. I have done the onboarding for more than 1,500 middleware products. There are different kinds of users of the product in our company, but the application itself has 1,500 middleware products. The solution is used on a daily basis, meaning it is used twenty-four hours and seven days a week. There are no plans to increase the use of the solution in our company.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."

"CloudStack has greatly helped integrate our existing infrastructure because we manage a massive cloud platform with thousands of VMs and around 1,200 to 1,500 hypervisors."

"The platform is very simple to scale-out."

"The initial implementation process was quite good."

"Everything in CloudStack works effectively."

"CloudStack provides an environment that is very simple to use, with built-in APIs and a web interface that supports almost all features of AWS and Azure."

"CloudStack helped us showcase our features through process visualization and functional solutions."

"Everything in CloudStack works effectively."

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"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control has an amazing GUI interface that does a lot of tasks with fewer steps rather than making it manual on the database or the operating system side."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle EMCC is its flexibility to manage various industries, projects, and tasks."

"The solution is stable. It is great in terms of Oracle products, especially for Oracle databases."

"It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"We have been satisfied with technical support."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control gives us diverse monitoring capability that can be extremely powerful."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is the reporting."

"Once this solution is configured, it will help administrators centralize their management of the environment."

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Cons

"It would be great to have a couple of “external” networks for VPC and have the possibility, for each domain, to choose they type of “external” network."

"The main reason why we started looking for another solution: backups, replication, HA, and dependency on secondary storage. CS is quite sensitive for infrastructure, and any kind of network disruption between CS and secondary storage leads to VM hanging."

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

"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."

"This product needs a lot improvement on the development side. Every new version introduces new bugs. It lacks many features needed for NFV like DPDK, SR-IOV support, etc."

"From time to time there is a bug in calculating limits of resources for customer domain/account. Maybe it’s a problem with 4.9.2."

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

"CloudStack lacks a billing solution which would complete it as a full 360-degree product."

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"I've had both positive and negative experiences with support. Its compatibility with the rest of the products in the market is less."

"The configuration is not straightforward for web continuity. It needs some improvement and the deployment is expensive."

"One of the things that can be improved is the quality of results generated by BI Publisher. They are somewhat confusing when it comes to analysis."

"Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure."

"The on-premises installation is complex. It should be easier, especially for deploying agents that are running on a Windows machine that is running Oracle databases. It's very complex. Linux based machines aren't so complicated but it's complex for Windows."

"The product does have room for improvement in patch management."

"They need to simplify it and make it lighter."

"Because this solution provides insight into all of the areas within the IT stack, it would benefit from enhancements in security."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"CloudStack is an open-source product."

"One has to pay for the enterprise version."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."

"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."

"The solution's pricing is fine."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Educational Organization

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudStack?

The initial implementation process was quite good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudStack?

CloudStack is open-source, so there is no cost apart from learning. Billing solutions, if outsourced, come at a moderate cost.

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What needs improvement with CloudStack?

Enhancements for CloudStack can focus on integrating more hypervisors, as mentioned regarding current features. We're working on a new feature that will allow for certain limited functions, but ove...

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What do you like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The valuable feature is job scheduling. It manages the database's scheduling, history, and growth, helping monitor CPU and space usage across the entire data center. It provides a comprehensive vie...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The price of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is very high, especially when considering the additional cost for features such as the tuning pack, which makes it more expensive compared to mo...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especia...

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Overview

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

Apache

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.

Oracle

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