Cloud Management Platforms comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + Extensive out-of-the-box reporting and automation
  • + Among the best at Chargeback
  • + Resource planning and rightsizing analysis
  • + Deep support for Cisco ACI and UCS
  • + Strong Governance support
  • + Cloud-agnostic blueprinting capabilities
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Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
  • - 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 2010. Shipping product for multiple years. CloudCenter has many large customers. In April 2016, Cisco completed the acquisition of CliQr Technologies.
Incorporated in 2011 and deployed in multiple large enterprise production envrionments.
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WhatMatrix Community
Director of Marketing - Ron Harnik
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
Single platform to model, deploy, and manage clouds, applications, and users
The Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform takes a fundamentally different approach to cloud management. Scalr applies policies at the organization level, rather than at the application level. For an enterprise with multiple departments or lines of business, the central IT unit can establish levels of policy-based guardrails for each department. Those departments can then operate with greater autonomy and establish any unique policy requirements on their own for their respective teams._x000D_
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Website
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  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
SaaS and install options on public clouds and on-premise
Scalr can be run on-premise on a private or public cloud, or delivered as SaaS.
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
CloudCenter installs an agent on each target VM
Scalr can operate with or without the Scalrizr Agent. Using the agent allows for greater orchestration and monitoring capabilites.
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
Built-in database is PostgreSQL
Scalr supports a variety of out-of-box database automation options as well cloud services
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited. Admins can be divided across levels of trust and resposibilites.
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited
Unlimited.
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
Annual subscription pricing for the SaaS and on-premises version.
Licensed by amount of managed end-points.
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Standalone platform.
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
Included in the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite licens
24x7 support - additional support levels are available.
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Cisco Advanced Services and Partners
Proffesional services, kick-starts, and trainings available.
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
Supported
vSphere 5.0 & above supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Supported via Windows Azure Pack
Supported via OpenStack
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Supported
Supported on Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka
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other
Azure Pack update rollup6 and later, Cisco UCS Director
KVM and Xen Supported
  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
Supported
Supported (as private implementation)
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported (including RM)
Supported
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Not supported
Not Supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
Dimension Data (MCP 1.0, legacy, and MCP 2.0), Alibaba, vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud
Rackspace, HP helion
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supported
Supports Docker
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Partly Supported
Supports Kubernetes
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Other
Scripted Support
Partly Supported
Orchestration options available for CoreOS, Swarm and Mesos.
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
Support
Yes
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Supports service images from other vendors
Yes
  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
CloudCenter supports enterprise marketplace and multi-tenant federated administration
Yes. Users can be managed locally or authenticated through LDAP/SAML.
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
API published : click on details (i) for link
Extensive API support
  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Supported
Native support
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Puppet
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Ansible
Supported
Supported
Support for Ansible Tower
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SaltStack
Supported
Supported
Some integration available
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Supported
Yes
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supports Cisco ACI
Supports Cloud SDN eg AWS APCs and limited private eg VMware
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
CloudCenter uses public cloud native networking APIs to instantiate policy
Supports AWS ELB,HAProxy,Nginx
Yes
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Supported using pre- and post-install scripts
Yes
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Integration with Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow
Yes
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Not supported
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Webhooks
Supported
Not Supported
Yes
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Supported
Yes
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Not Supported
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CMDB integration
Supported
Limited capability
Yes - Scalr integrates with tools such as ServiceNow and Remedy through the Webhook system
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Configuration tags
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
Supported
Planned
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Not supported
Planned
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Supported
Planned
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Runtime policies
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Limited capability
Yes - via a connector such as OpenStack
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Supported
Depends on the platform
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Supported via aging policies
Yes
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
Supported
Limited
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HA/DR features
Supported
HA Supported for the CMP application
Hosted apps
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
Central feature of CloudCenter
Yes
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Service Catalog
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Supported
Only via partners.
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Approval workflow
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
Supported
Yes
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Not supported
Yes
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
Supported
Yes
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
Supported
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Cost allocation
Supported
No native integration (Billing API available)
Yes
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User-defined rates
Supported
Application level monitoring
Yes
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Multiple currency support
Supported
Not supported
No
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
API based
Through Webhooks and tagging.
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
Supported
On initial import
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Supported
Yes, as part of general logging
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
Supported
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
through a SSO IDentity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
Yes
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Role-based access controls
Supported
through a SSO Identity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
Yes
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User-defined groups
Supported
Supports security profiles
Yes
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Supported
Yes
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LDAP support
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Key vaulting
Supported
Not supported
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Support for single signon
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
Not supported
General logging
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Not supported
Integration available through Webhooks and orchestration engine
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Supported
Yes
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Partly Supported
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other
Supported
CloudCenter supports UCS Director
Scalr can work with any code repo.
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Not supported
Yes
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
Supported
No
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
It is possible to save an modeled application as a reusable template
Yes
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
Not supported
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Can use SSH or VNC via web browser
Yes
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Snapshotting
Supported
Supported
Yes, for DB and storage
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Supported
Yes

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  • Scalr
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