Which Cloud Platform?

Robert Plummer · Apr 19, 2017

I have a question, it seems simple but is probably complicated...

If you were to build a cloud right now, what would you use (software) to build it with? Would you use OnApp, OpenStack, Cloudstack, proxmox cloud, etc?

Depending on your software of choice for building your cloud stack, what would you use for billing and provisioning?

The goals I'm looking for are Failover, Automated Billing/Provisioning of resources, and centralized storage.

-REPlummer
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HostColor · Apr 21, 2017

Hi Robert,

My answer is VMware. Is has amazing High Availability (HA) and Automated Fault-Tolerance. The HA reduces any possible downtime result of failure of the underlying physical host or the Operating system of the Cloud server. It monitors and in case of outage, just restarts the instance on a different host, part of the cluster (Yes, you must have at least 3 physical nodes). The Automated Fault Tolerance guarantees zero downtime. It requires 4 physical hosts/servers. Should you have the fault-tolerance functionality active, there's no interruption of the services. It is beautiful. We use VMware for almost 2 years in both data centers of ours.

We have been on OpenNebula before and it was very much pain to deal with them. Some partners say OpenStack works good, We tried to implement for a customer, but still it is not better than VMware's Cloud automation technology.

RDO Servers · Apr 21, 2017

For our private cloud customers, we primary use CloudStack and CEPH for storage.

If done correctly, it's is very stable, fault tolerant, and easy to manage.

serverbundle · May 2, 2017

It will certainly depend upon your experience. OnApp is one the easiest way for an inexperience company to start selling their own Cloud Infrastructure.
For someone who is just entering the market without any prior experience, OnApp will certainly be the best bet for them. Alternatively, if you have a good budget and experience techs with you
then CloudStack and VMware are really good options.

Matt Eberlie · May 2, 2017

VMware will be the best option

AlphaNine Vini · May 4, 2017

On a cloud platform resources are scaled when its required . Suppose at 2:00 PM you dont have much traffic but still you have 100% ram utilized. Suddently at 6:00 PM traffic rise up. Your server would need more traffic. In that case more ram will be assigned to your server to handle the traffic and keep your website up and working. The RAM will be same on the main physical server. But the free ram that is not in use will be added to your server automatically.

braxtoncina · May 8, 2017

Yes, VMware is costly but best option to choose.

BuzzNoc · May 19, 2017

http://owncloud.com seen a couple people use this

instacarma · May 23, 2017

Apart from public, private and hybrid cloud computing, here are some of the emerging trends in cloud implementation consultation practices that are expected to rein the market in 2017. It is important for us to be aware of these as we endeavor to align our business strategies towards ensuring successful cloud implementation.

1.Integrative management of multiple cloud service providers
2.The emergence of Cloud monitoring as a service (CMaaS)
3.Ability to switch between different cloud platforms & service providers
4.Auditing the cloud services and security levels

BuzzNoc · May 23, 2017

Open stack is a great cloud source

Medhahosting · May 26, 2017

Go with Virtualizor their help is greater.Per server monthly 10 USD.All features available including which plugin.All othere technologies cost your life time earinings

m19 · Jun 17, 2017

Robert Plummer said:
I have a question, it seems simple but is probably complicated...

If you were to build a cloud right now, what would you use (software) to build it with? Would you use OnApp, OpenStack, Cloudstack, proxmox cloud, etc?

Depending on your software of choice for building your cloud stack, what would you use for billing and provisioning?

The goals I'm looking for are Failover, Automated Billing/Provisioning of resources, and centralized storage.

-REPlummer
QnEZ Servers

Sounds like you need OnApp, it is costly but their support is awesome

cindercloud · May 15, 2024

I would use Proxmox with CEPH (for redundancy), it's easy to deploy and scale up, it's well documented, it has a built-in CEPH installer and user-friendly dashboard and it has cloud features like High-Availability, VM live and offline migrations, etc.

For sure, I wouldn't go with OpenStack if you don't have a skilled team of IT engineers. OpenStack of course offers a lot of features and has drivers for almost all of the available storage solutions, including enterprise storage (HPE 3PAR, NetApp, PureStorage) and SDS (CEPH, GlusterFS, NexentaStor), but it's overcomplicated, hard to deploy (especially TripleO or OpenStack-Ansible), hard to maintain. OpenStack requires more hardware than other solutions, i.e. Proxmox, to achieve the same redundancy level, High Availability, and failover procedures, so if you are co-locating your servers you will pay more for co-location.

VMware is great, especially with vCenter, but it costs money, however the good news is that small/medium VMware cluster can be maintained by one man, IMHO.

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