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VMware Cloud Director vs ZStack

VMware Cloud Director

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ZStack

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FigureVMware Cloud DirectorZStack
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published02
Spec score · Virtualization Management Software5.3 (#34)8.1 (#7)
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California, United StatesShanghai, China

Plans

VMware Cloud Director

No plans published.

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ZStack

  • ZStack CloudFree
  • ZStack ZSphereFree

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VMware Cloud Director

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ZStack

ZStack Cloud is self-hosted infrastructure software for managing compute, networking, and storage in data centers. The product range spans private cloud, virtualization, AI infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure, storage, networking, container cloud, and multi-cloud management. ZCF combines compute, storage, networking, containers, and security in a software-defined private-cloud platform with a unified portal, operations, and identity management. It manages hosts, disks, images, and snapshots, and supports scheduling and elastic scaling. ZStone provides block, file, and object storage; Zaku manages Kubernetes clusters and containers alongside virtual machines. ZStack Cloud Enterprise integrates with Alibaba Cloud and offers a RESTful API, backup and recovery options, high-availability policies, and a UI migration service for mainstream Windows and Linux cloud hosts. Listed free plans provide full features for three months for ZStack ZSphere or one year for ZStack Cloud. ZStack describes its products as enterprise infrastructure, including for private clouds in organizations' own data centers. ZLR enterprise disaster recovery is marked as coming soon.

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