The private cloud platform that does most of what OpenStack does with a fraction of the operational pain: one management server, a real web UI and API, genuine multi-tenancy, a host allocator that places VMs for you, and support for KVM, XCP-ng/XenServer, and VMware. The zone/pod/cluster model, basic versus advanced networking, where it beats both OpenStack and the HCI crowd, and the honest weaknesses — smaller mindshare, an aging UI, and opinionated networking.
Cloudstack
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Apache CloudStack: The Underrated Workhorse