Cloud Management Platforms comparison & reviews

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  • Fully Supported
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Pros
  • + Extensive out-of-the-box reporting and automation
  • + Among the best at Chargeback
  • + Resource planning and rightsizing analysis
  • + Multi-Cloud Management & Orchestration (IaaS,PaaS)
  • + Cloud Analytics - Migration Planning, Cost Optimization,Account Management, Governance and Security
  • + Deep support for Cisco ACI and UCS
  • + Strong Governance support
  • + Cloud-agnostic blueprinting capabilities
Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
  • - Support only major Private and Public Cloud Providers
  • - Weakest on Security
  • - Below average Chargeback capabilities
  • - Below average DevOps support
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Maturity
Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
Company founded in 2016. Shipping products Recognized by Gartner as the exclusive visioinary in CMP Magic Quadrant
Company founded in 2010. Shipping product for multiple years. CloudCenter has many large customers. In April 2016, Cisco completed the acquisition of CliQr Technologies.
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Content Creator
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WhatMatrix Community
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
Hybrid Cloud Management and Orchestration for VM & Containers. HyperCloud Analytics for Cloud Migration Planning, Cost Optimization, Governance, Compliance and Security. 
Single platform to model, deploy, and manage clouds, applications, and users
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Website
Click on details (i) for more info
Click on details (i) for more info
Click on details (i) for more info
  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
Locally, Public Cloud and SaaS
SaaS and install options on public clouds and on-premise
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
Yes
CloudCenter installs an agent on each target VM
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS
Built-in database is PostgreSQL
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited
Unlimited
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
ELA & Subscription Based
Annual subscription pricing for the SaaS and on-premises version.
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Vendor Agnostic
Vendor agnostic
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
Standard 24/7
Included in the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite licens
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Yes
Cisco Advanced Services and Partners
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
VMware vSphere 6.0 and above_x000D_
VMware vCloud Director 9.0 and above (with VMware NSX)_x000D_
VMware Cloud on AWS
Supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Microsoft Hyper-V 2012,2016 & 2019
Supported via Windows Azure Pack
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Openstack (Queens and above)
Supported
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other
Ovirt KVM 4.0 and above
NEW
Azure Pack update rollup6 and later, Cisco UCS Director
  Public Cloud Support  
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Amazon Web Services
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Google Cloud Platform
Cost comparisons only
Supported
Supported
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IBM Bluemix Cloud
Support for VMware on IBM Cloud
Partially Supported
Supported
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported
Supported (including RM)
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Not Currently Supported
Not supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
Supported
Dimension Data (MCP 1.0, legacy, and MCP 2.0), Alibaba, vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supported
Supported
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Supported
Partly Supported
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Other
Scripted Support
Partly Supported
Partly Supported
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
HyperCloud Analytics - Cloud Planning
Support
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Partially Supported
Supported
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Partially Supported
Supports service images from other vendors
  Migration  
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
Supported
Supported
Supported
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  Administration  
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Multi-tenant support
Supported
Supported
CloudCenter supports enterprise marketplace and multi-tenant federated administration
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
API published : click on details (i) for link
API published : click on details (i) for link
  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Puppet
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Ansible
Supported
Supported
Supported
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SaltStack
Supported
Not Currenlty Supported
Supported
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Supported
Supported
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supported
Supports Cisco ACI
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
Partially Supported
CloudCenter uses public cloud native networking APIs to instantiate policy
Supports AWS ELB,HAProxy,Nginx
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Supported
Supported using pre- and post-install scripts
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Supported
Integration with Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Supported
Not supported
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Webhooks
Supported
Supported
Not Supported
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Partially Supported
Supported
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Supported
Not Supported
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CMDB integration
Supported
Partially Supported
Limited capability
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Configuration tags
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Supported
Not supported
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Runtime policies
Supported
HyperCloud Governance and Compliance
Supported
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Supported
Limited capability
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Supported
Supported via aging policies
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
HyperCloud Agent
Supported
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HA/DR features
Supported
Supported
HA Supported for the CMP application
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
HyperCloud AppStore
Central feature of CloudCenter
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Service Catalog
Supported
HyperCloud AppStore
Supported
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Supported
Supported
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
HyperCloud AppStore
Supported
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Approval workflow
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
HyperCloud Blueprints
Supported
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Partially Supported
Not supported
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
HyperCloud Quotas & Resource Pools 
Supported
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
HyperCloud Cost Optimization, HyperCloud Rate Card
Supported
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
HyperCloud Cost Optimization, HyperCloud Rate Card
Supported
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Cost allocation
Supported
HyperCloud Rate Card
No native integration (Billing API available)
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User-defined rates
Supported
HyperCloud Rate Card
Application level monitoring
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Multiple currency support
Supported
Supported
Not supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
Supported
API based
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
Partially Supported
Supported
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
For multi-tenancy - Yes, multiple levels
through a SSO IDentity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
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Role-based access controls
Supported
Supported
through a SSO Identity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
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User-defined groups
Supported
Supported
Supports security profiles
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Supported
Supported
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LDAP support
Supported
Supported
Supported
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Key vaulting
Supported
Supported
Not supported
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Support for single signon
Supported
Not Currently Supported
Supported
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
Supported
Not supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Supported
Not supported
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Supported
Supported
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Supported
Partly Supported
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other
Supported
Limited additional
CloudCenter supports UCS Director
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Not Currently Supported
Not supported
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
Supported
Supported
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
HyperCloud App Modelling, VM/App Blueprints
It is possible to save an modeled application as a reusable template
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
Not Currently Supported
Not supported
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Partially Supported
Can use SSH or VNC via web browser
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Snapshotting
Supported
Not Currently Supported
Supported
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Supported
Supported

Matrix Score

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  • Hypergrid
  • Hypergrid
  • Cisco
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  • 3 rd
  • 3 rd
  • 8 th
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