brief comparison between CloudStack and OpenStack in UI, architecture,deployment etc.

1. CloudStack vs Openstack
Victor Zhang
ilivessevili@gmail.com

2. Agenda
Compare Items CloudStack OpenStack
UI
Architecture
Networking
Storage
Deployment

3. UI

4. • Easy to use
• User friendly
CloudStack UI

5. OpenStack UI
• Simple in
function
• Django based

6. Architecture

7. CloudStack Arch

8. OpenStack Arch

9. Networking

10. CloudStack

11. Openstack
• Network Mode
– FLAT Network
– FLAT DHCP Network
– VLan DHCP Network
• Network Type
– Public network
– Data network
– Management network
– API network

12. VLan DHCP Network

13. Storage

14. CloudStack
Primary Storage
Secondary
Storage
iSCISI NFS
Local FileSystem
Ceph
Gluster
Templates
ISO images
Disk volume
snapshots
S3
Swift

15. OpenStack-Swift

16. OpenStack - Cinder

17. Deployment

18. CloudStack
Small Deployment
Large Deployment
Multisite Deployment

19. Small-Scale Deployment

20. Large Scale Deployment

21. OpenStack
• Puppet
• Chef

22. 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 different
pieces
• Shared nothing
Networking • Basic mode(Security
group)
• Advanced mode(Vlan
based)
• Flat mode
• Flat DHCP mode
• Vlan DHCP mode
Storage Categorized into Primary
and secondary
Block storage cinder, object
storage swift
Deployment Much easy to deploy Need tools like puppet or
chef to deploy