Understanding CloudStack, OpenStack, and the Cloud API
February 23, 2015
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
OpenStack vs CloudStack is not so much of a battle as it is a push for advanced cloud management. Let’s start here: these platforms were designed as cloud computing has become an integral part for many organizations. The big push was for logical cloud-layer management that has a lot of ways to control various workloads. With that, let’s dive into the latest and greatest from both of these guys.
CloudStack: Running on hyervisors like KVN, vSphere, XenServer, and now Hyper-V, CloudStack is an open-source cloud management platform designed for creating, controlling, and deploying various cloud services. With its growing API-supported stack, CloudStack already fully supports the Amazon AWS API model…
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