CloudStack vs Openstack

Victor Zhang

ilivessevili@gmail.com

Agenda

Compare Items CloudStack OpenStack

UI

Architecture

Networking

Storage

Deployment

UI

• Easy to use

• User friendly

CloudStack UI

OpenStack UI

• Simple in function

• Django based

Architecture

CloudStack Arch

OpenStack Arch

Networking

CloudStack

Openstack

• Network Mode– FLAT Network

– FLAT DHCP Network

– VLan DHCP Network

• Network Type– Public network

– Data network

– Management network

– API network

VLan DHCP Network

Storage

CloudStack

Primary StorageSecondary

Storage

iSCISI NFS

Local FileSystem

Ceph

Gluster

Templates

ISO images

Disk volume snapshots

S3

Swift

OpenStack-Swift

OpenStack - Cinder

Deployment

CloudStack

Small Deployment

Large Deployment

Multisite Deployment

Small-Scale Deployment

Large Scale Deployment

OpenStack

• Puppet

• Chef

Conclusion

Compare Items CloudStack OpenStack

UI • Easy to use• User friendly• Based on Jquery + JSP

• Simple in function• Based on Python Django

framework

Architecture • Monolithic controller• Datacenter model• No object storage

• Fragmented to differentpieces

• Shared nothing

Networking • Basic mode(Security group)

• Advanced mode(Vlanbased)

• Flat mode• Flat DHCP mode• Vlan DHCP mode

Storage Categorized into Primaryand secondary

Block storage cinder, object storage swift

Deployment Much easy to deploy Need tools like puppet or chef to deploy