I have received many
queries from customers regarding which private cloud is suitable for their
organization requirement. I always recommend to implement the cloud which
satisfies the organization requirement.
To elaborate more on
organization requirement I am taking car's example.
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| OPENSTACK |
Many people requires Customized cars with modified features because of cars specific functions and requirement so they will build car with different pices and parts. Others likes to go with selecting readymade car models to get into the box features.
Openstack is like
custom build car you can pick and chose the features to implement and modify
the features based on your organization requirement. You can even modify the
engine (nova, horizon etc.) based on your requirement. but like custom cars you
need specific teams to build private cloud with coding and infrastructure
resource management skills. VMware, HP Helion, Redhat, ubuntu is working on
their distributions for openstack but personally i feel that still none of them
are stable enough for production workload.
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| CLOUDSTACK, vCloud, HP CSM, etc. |
For the users
require features in a box solution they have 2 options
1) Paid
license based solutions (Citrix CloudPlatform, VMware vCloud, Cisco UCSD,
HP CSM, etc.)
2)
Opensource solutions (Cloudstack, OpenQRM, Opennebula etc.)
each options are like different vendors and models of cars. each options
has their own features, support and stability. Paid and licensed solutions have
features based on license edition so you have to pay more to get more features
(eg. vcloud suite standard and enterprise).In The second option all the
features are available and the support is available from
My personal choice
and widely adopted opensource private cloud solution by industry is Cloudstack
because of large active community, simplicity, stability and well documented.
Cloudstack support is also available in India with Frontier Business Systems.
In summary, The
choice of private cloud technology is always depends on the organization's
requirement. each options has their own advantages over others and selection is
completely depends on business requirement, cost, stability and support.