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Cloud Cost Calculator and Cloud Pricing Report

Compare the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running on-premise cloud infrastructure and hosting with the hyperscalers. Use the ShapeBlue calculator to evaluate the costs of using hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, or GCP versus managing your own infrastructure. What savings can you achieve with Cloud Repatriation?

VMware to Apache CloudStack Migration Guide

This guide is designed for VMware users who want to migrate their existing vSphere environment to a robust IaaS cloud environment based on Apache CloudStack and the KVM Hypervisor, ensuring a smooth, low-friction migration journey. Migration from VMware ESXi hosts on vCenter to a KVM hypervisor environment in Apache CloudStak is a key step towards eliminating vendor lock-in and decreasing licensing costs.

Apache CloudStack as a VMware Alternative

Apache CloudStack provides a seamless transition for current VMware users, offering a straightforward pathway for service providers to adopt a highly scalable and reliable open-source solution. By adopting Apache CloudStack, organizations can ensure vendor independency, ushering in a new era of flexibility and autonomy.
CloudStack as an Open-source VMware Alternative Guide

Apache CloudStack Guide

This POC guide gives you all the guidance you need to perform a successful Proof of Concept of Apache CloudStack. By following this guide, you will be prepared for what to expect from the technology and how to move into production. The guide gives detailed configuration information. At the end of this PoC, you will have a highly available, reliable and flexible CloudStack-powered cloud.

Guides

This guide is designed for VMware users who want to migrate their existing vSphere environment to a robust IaaS cloud environment based on Apache CloudStack and the KVM Hypervisor, ensuring a smooth, low-friction migration journey. Migration from VMware ESXi hosts on vCenter to a KVM hypervisor environment in Apache CloudStak is a key step towards eliminating vendor lock-in and decreasing licensing costs.
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IaaS Quick Build Guide for CloudStack-based Environments

This ShapeBlue IaaS Quick Build Guide provides a straightforward set of instructions to get you up and running with a CloudStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud.

Apache CloudStack Guide

This POC guide gives you all the guidance you need to perform a successful Proof of Concept of Apache CloudStack. By following this guide, you will be prepared for what to expect from the technology and how to move into production. The guide gives detailed configuration information. At the end of this PoC, you will have a highly available, reliable and flexible CloudStack-powered cloud.

White Papers and Solution Briefs

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Dell PowerFlex Integration with Apache CloudStack

A white paper describing the integration of Dell PowerFlex storage with the Apache CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. This integration facilitates the deployment of reliable and easy-to-manage cloud infrastructure with KVM hypervisor using the PowerFlex storage.

Apache CloudStack and Terraform Solution Brief

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool created by Hashicorp and Licensed through the Apache 2 License.

By using Terraform, end users can easily create complex infrastructures anywhere since Terraform has a huge list of providers supported, including Apache CloudStack.

CloudStack Integrations: StorPool Storage – High-performance Primary Storage Platform

This Solution Brief aids cloud and storage architects, consultants, administrators, and field practitioners in the design and deployment of reliable, easy-to-manage, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure based on Apache CloudStack working with KVM hosts and StorPool Storage.

CloudStack Integrations: LINBIT – Open-source SDS Solution

Combining Apache Cloudstack with LINBIT SDS creates a perfect environment for Cloud Providers, Hosting Companies, Finance Industries, ISP’s and many more.

LINBIT SDS provides organizations with the performance, simplicity, and flexibility they need from storage infrastructures.

Case Studies

CloudStack and ShapeBlue Help DIMSI to Deliver Public Cloud Solutions

Telia Utilises CloudStack and ShapeBlue to Maintain a Market-leading Position in the Baltics

KDDI Corporation Case Study CloudStack/ShapeBlue

CloudStack Stability and Reliability Enables KDDI to Deliver 99.999% Uptime to Their Enterprise Customers

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Migration Guide: VMware to Apache CloudStack

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