This is the second post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. In the first post, I covered the Private Cloud Director (PCD) API surface, how authentication works under the hood, and using the CLI. In this post, I’d like to walk through something practical: installing Terraform, pointing it at your PCD environment, and deploying […]
· April 15, 2026 · 6 min read
If you’re evaluating a VMware alternative, monitoring is one of the first topics that comes up. It’s a capability that quietly blocks a migration if it’s missing. Your team already has dashboards, alerting rules, and capacity planning workflows built around vCenter and vROps. The question isn’t whether Private Cloud Director (PCD) has monitoring. It’s whether
· April 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Executive Summary Private Cloud Director (PCD) now provides built-in audit logging for core platform services, accessible through the UI and API. Audit logs capture administrative and operational actions across Identity, Compute, and Networking services, giving infrastructure teams a centralized record of who did what, when, and from where. This capability supports compliance workflows, change tracking,
· March 16, 2026 · 4 min read
Executive Summary Private Cloud Director uses KVM as its hypervisor and QCOW2 as its native disk format. This architectural choice decouples the hypervisor, disk format, and storage layers eliminating the tight interdependencies that characterize the vSphere stack and providing infrastructure teams with a non-proprietary foundation for their virtual machine workloads. Because every layer in the
· March 6, 2026 · 6 min read