Cloud platform comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack

16.07.2012

is a console for managing computing resources. A number of well-known information-driven companies, such as Zynga, Nokia Research Center and Cloud Central, have deployed clouds using CloudStack. Apart from having its own API, the platform supports CloudBridge Amazon EC2, which enables converting an Amazon API into a CloudStack API. You can find a detailed .

Main features:

- Hypervisors agnostic (KVM, XEN, ESXi, OVM and BareMetal)

- Roles (assigning and managing permissions)