We performed a comparison between IBM PurePower System and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."We never have any issues or glitches."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
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IBM PurePower System is ranked 11th in Converged Infrastructure while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. IBM PurePower System is rated 8.0, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM PurePower System writes "Easy to work on and has never had any glitches or issues ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". IBM PurePower System is most compared with , whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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