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This is an extensive, but not exhaustive, set of features. </p><p>Have a feature request? We'd invite you to <a href="/mailing-lists">bring it up on the mailing list</a>, and consider <a href="https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">filing a feature request in our issue tracker</a>.</p><h2>Rich Management User Interface</h2><p>CloudStack provides a feature-rich out-of-the-box user interface implemented on |
| top of the CloudStack API to manage the cloud infrastructure. It is a fully AJAX |
| based solution compatible with most of the latest internet browsers and can also |
| be easily integrated with your existing portal.</p><h2>Brand-able Self Service User Interface</h2><p>Our out-of-the-box user interface was built using standard HTML and CSS with |
| jQuery as our standard JavaScript library. It can be easily customized and |
| branded to mirror your company’s existing look and feel.</p><h2>Secure Console Access</h2><p>A noVNC based client that allows users to access their virtual machine using any |
| of the latest internet browsers without the need of any external add-on such as |
| a JRE, ActiveX, or Flash.</p><h2>Powerful API</h2><p>Easily build, integrate, and use applications built on top of the CloudStack |
| API. The CloudStack API is well-documented and extensible. CloudStack also |
| includes support for the Amazon EC2 and S3 APIs.</p><h2>Secure Single Sign On</h2><p>Aggregate and integrate your existing applications with our management user |
| interface via our secure single sign-on for a better user experience.</p><h2>Multi-role Support</h2><p>Three distinct account roles for user interface and API access are supported out-of-the-box:</p><ul><li>Admin: can manage both the virtual and physical resources of the cloud</li><li>Domain-Admin: can manage only the virtual resources owned by the accounts within their domain</li><li>User: can manage their own virtual resources</li></ul><p>In addition, CloudStack allows operators to define dynamic roles based on these core role types.</p><h2>On Demand Virtual Data center Hosting</h2><p>Provides users with virtually unlimited amount of computing resources – on |
| demand, as required and billed by actual usage.</p><h2>Dynamic Workload Management</h2><p>Completely automates the distribution of compute, network, and storage resource |
| across the physical infrastructure while adhering to defined policies on load |
| balancing, data security, and compliance.</p><h2>Broad network Virtualization Capabilities</h2><p>Support for embedded software-based network management as well as VLAN. Our |
| Direct Attached IP enables you to integrate with a virtual network architecture |
| that best fits your needs.</p><h2>MPLS Support in the Cloud</h2><p>CloudStack allows you to dedicate an entire VLAN to a specific account for MPLS |
| support between network nodes.</p><h2>Secure Cloud Deployments</h2><p>Ensures that all memory, CPU, network, and storage resources are both available |
| and isolated from one user account to another within the cloud.</p><h2>Hypervisor Agnostic</h2><p>CloudStack provides you with the flexibility to allow you to integrate with the |
| major hypervisors in the market today including KVM, VMware, Citrix |
| XenServer, XCP-ng.</p><h2>Easy Template Creation Process</h2><p>The CloudStack User Interface allows you to easily create pre-defined templates |
| for efficient virtual machine deployments. Templates can be created by attaching |
| a guest OS ISO to a blank VM or directly from existing VMs in the cloud.</p><h2>Rich Template and ISO Management</h2><p>Both users and administrators will be able to upload and manage their OS |
| templates and ISO images from within the cloud. A few management features |
| include the ability to allow others to use the templates/ISOs either on a global |
| public level or on a per-account basis, and to allow the management of templates |
| across multiple zones. CloudStack will ensure that templates are automatically |
| copied to the appropriate storage servers.</p><h2>Domains and Delegated Administration</h2><p>The support for domains allows you to segregate your cloud resources and |
| delegate the management of these domains to other administrators.</p><h2>Snapshot Management</h2><p>To help mitigate data loss and a way of disaster recovery, users are given the |
| capability of either taking ad hoc snapshots of their disk volumes or setting up |
| a comprehensive schedule for taking periodic snapshots of their data. Users can |
| set limits to the number of snapshots taken to creating new data disk volumes |
| from existing snapshots.</p><h2>Comprehensive Service Management</h2><p>Administrators can define, meter, deploy, and manage multiple service and disk |
| offerings within the cloud.</p><h2>VM Sync and High Availability</h2><p>Our custom VM Sync technology constantly monitors and maintains the state of all |
| virtual machines within the cloud from notifications of individual VM status to |
| the ability to automatically ensure that the VM remains running.</p><h2>Resource Over Provisioning and Limits</h2><p>By leveraging existing hypervisor, storage, and network technologies, you can |
| configure the cloud to allow over provisioning of physical resources to optimize |
| the allocation of your virtual machines.</p><p>CloudStack also provides administrators the capability of limiting virtual |
| resources (such as the number of VMs that an account can create to the number of |
| public IP addresses an account can own).</p><h2>Usage Metering</h2><p>Be able to deliver real-time visibility, produce historical usage reports, and |
| create billing invoices by integrating with metering data generated by the |
| CloudStack Usage Engine.</p><h2>Alerts and Notifications</h2><p>With built-in cloud system monitoring processes, you will be able to receive |
| up-to-the-minute alerts such as reaching a certain physical resource threshold |
| or detecting machine failures through the CloudStack API and/or via email using |
| SMTP.</p><h2>Virtual Routers, Firewalls and Load Balancers</h2><p>CloudStack supports integration with both software and hardware firewalls and |
| load balancers to provide additional security and scalability to a user’s cloud |
| environment. Including F5 and Netscaler.</p><h2>Multiple Storage Solutions</h2><p>CloudStack supports many storage solutions with iSCSI and NFS being preferred, |
| but anything that can have multiple nodes mount it simultaneously will work. |
| Ceph RBD is also supported in combination with the KVM hypervisor. This gives |
| you the ultimate freedom in deciding your storage servers from using commodity |
| hardware to integrating with enterprise-grade solutions such as Dell EqualLogic, |
| NetApp, Dell/EMC PowerFlex, Linbit, Storpool.</p><h2>Storage Tiering</h2><p>As part of the CloudStack’s ability to integrate with multiple storage |
| solutions, you will also be able to target specific storage servers to be used |
| for VM deployments. This can be extremely beneficial when you have storage |
| servers built with commodity hardware to support non disk intensive applications |
| and dedicate fast and robust hardware for disk intensive applications such as |
| databases.</p><h2>Block Storage Volumes</h2><p>CloudStack supports the creation of block storage volumes of arbitrary size on |
| both network attached storage (NAS) or local disk that can be attached and |
| detached to and from your virtual machine.</p><h2>Wide Range Guest VM OS Support</h2><p>Depending on the configured hypervisor, CloudStack supports a wide range of |
| guest operating system including Windows®, Linux®, and various versions of BSD®.</p><h2>Event/Audit Logs</h2><p>All user interactions via the CloudStack UI or API are recorded as events. Each |
| event will indicate the type, severity level, description, owner of the |
| resource, the user that initiated the action, and when the event occurred.</p><h2>User Data Support</h2><p>CloudStack supports the notion of allowing a user to submit any type of binary |
| user data when deploying a new virtual machine. This gives you the flexibility |
| of giving each virtual machine created from the same OS template its own |
| identity in the cloud.</p><h2>Guest OS Preferences</h2><p>To take advantage of today’s hardware and OS licensing models, CloudStack allows |
| administrators to identify physical hosts to “prefer” specific operating |
| systems. For example this means that whenever possible, your Windows based |
| operating systems will be instantiated on all hosts that have been identified as |
| Windows “preferred.”</p><h2>Host Maintenance with Live Migration</h2><p>Upgrades and hardware maintenance can be achieved on the cloud with no downtime |
| for guest VMs. CloudStack will live-migrate any VMs from hosts that have been |
| targeted for maintenance to prevent any disruption of service.</p><h2>Flexible Adapter Framework</h2><p>The CloudStack was built from the ground up to support integration with a |
| variety of hypervisors, storage, network, and authentication solutions. Due to |
| this flexibility, we have created an Adapter Framework that will easily allow |
| you to further customize the cloud to suit your business needs.</p><h2>Random Password for Guest OS</h2><p>You can further enhance your guest OS templates to include our custom random |
| password feature that will automatically generate a unique password upon the |
| creation of a VM. This will allow your customers to securely log in and change |
| their password. Both Windows and Linux based OS platforms are currently |
| supported.</p><h2>OpenStack Swift Integration for Secondary Storage</h2><p>Secondary storage (templates and VM snapshots) can be stored in OpenStack Swift |
| as an alternative to NFS.</p><h2>Projects</h2><p>Allow users to collaborate and share resources within a defined group or |
| "project". When a user creates an a project all usage under the project is |
| attributed to the account who becomes the project owner.</p><h2>Clustered LVM Support</h2><p>CloudStack can utilize clustered Logical Volume Manager (LVM) storage |
| configurations starting with version 3.0.</p><h2>NetScaler Support</h2><p>CloudStack supports MPX, VPX & SDX devices. Users can set up Layer-4 load |
| balancing rules. Supported protocols: HTTP, TCP & UDP; Algorithms: least loaded |
| and round robin; Persistent sessions: source IP based, cookie based.</p><h2>Network As a Service</h2><p>Admin can compose network offerings with different network behaviors. For |
| example, a basic network offering with CloudStack Virtual Router offering |
| network services and a high-performance network offering with physical devices |
| such as NetScaler and Juniper SRX. Users can select the network offering of |
| choice while deploying a VM and also migrate VMs from one network offering to |
| another.</p><h2>SAML and LDAP Integration with 2FA</h2><p>CloudStack supports SAML LDAP authentication as a built-in optional AUTH adapter. |
| CloudStack also supports two-factor authentication.</p><h2>Notification & Capacity Thresholds</h2><p>Admin can set notification threshold to receive an alert when resource pool |
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