Bjoern, thanks for your feedback, couple comments in-line:
On Nov 10, 2013, at 8:12 AM, BJO ERN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > some critique to the overall cloudstack project in hope to improve it. > I personally would wish that this projects dedicates more resources into > documentation or ironing out the product. > Some issues I had during the installation of cloudstack : > > - Lack of a feature matrix (What constellation is supported) > > - Feature un-parity for KVM hypervisor > - Snapshots finally improving > - no native iscsi support > Agreed, we don't have a clear matrix > - SG in Advanced Zones implementation is really bad in 4.2 > - Virtually downgrading advanced mode into a basic mode > - No NAT, internal LB service implemented > > - Lack of documentation in certain areas is shocking > - Really bad is the external loadbalancer part > Agreed, we have moved the docs to their separate repo to make it easier to contribute. We are also looking into cleaning up a lot of the docs, or even starting from scratch. We should see substantial improvement on this front in the coming months. > - Most user issues during installation are coming from the clunky SSVM > - Get rid of this VM and use processes on the hypervisor Agreed, there is some WIP on this: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/QuickCloud > > - No userdata support in the GUI (filed CLOUDSTACK-5120) > I actually never used it via the GUI, but it's there in the API. If you use libcloud you can set the user data. I know of at least one cloud who created it's own UI and makes it possible to set userdata in the UI. That said it should not be hard to do. I will keep an eye on that bug. > - Sill no hyper-V support … > It just got merged and will be in 4.3 > I personally want to support the project, even with dev activities but in > the current state I;m stuck with cloudstack I'm not optimistic if it can > advance against other IAAS solutions. > I created already ticket for some issues I found. > Thanks for filing tickets, this helps get better, please don't hesitate to send us patches including on the documentation. Any other feedback is great ! Cheers, -sebastien > Cheers, > Bjoern
