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Integrating Enterprise ITSM Approval Workflows with Private Cloud Director

Motivation Enterprise IT teams working in manufacturing or regulated industries require the ability to review, approve and customize workload provisioning requests being made by a broad range of self-service users. These requests may be reviewed to ensure conformance, resource availability or to satisfy custom provisioning requests. Previously, Enterprise IT teams were able to use VMware […]

Platform9 · August 21, 2025 · 6 min read

Private Cloud Director: August 2025 Release

Organizations searching for the private cloud solution in a post-VMware world can’t compromise on functionality. Private Cloud Director’s latest release adds more enterprise level capabilities to make replacing VMware easy, without losing critical functionality or requiring staff retraining. The newest release adds new AI hardware support and feature integration addressing top IT requirements for modern

Platform9 · August 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Escape Velocity: The Next Leap for vJailbreak and VMware Migrations

Many IT teams are watching the unfolding VMware situation and feeling that it looks less like change and more like a reckoning. Enterprises are facing steep licensing changes, skyrocketing costs, and a creeping sense that control is slipping away. Organizations have thousands of virtualized hosts that need to find a new home. That’s why we

Platform9 · August 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Platform9 commvault integration blog post

Platform9, Commvault Team Up on Private Cloud Data Protection

A new partnership brings together Platform9’s modern private cloud experience and Commvault’s proven cyber resilience, delivering backup, DR, and workload protection for enterprises. As a Chief Technology Officer at Platform9, I’ve had countless conversations with enterprise IT leaders who all echo the same concern: how can we modernize our infrastructure without sacrificing security or operational

Roopak Parikh · July 9, 2025 · 4 min read

Reimagining Virtualization for the Enterprise Private Cloud Era

Enterprise infrastructure teams are at a pivotal moment. Private clouds have never been more important for organizations, as new workloads demand on-premises deployment. At the same time, VMware’s licensing and business model changes under Broadcom are forcing many organizations to evaluate alternatives for a private cloud foundation. The immediate need is clear: a reliable, enterprise-grade

Madhura Maskasky · June 18, 2025 · 7 min read

Beginner’s Guide to Private Cloud Director Community Edition

Hey everyone! 👋 So, you’re curious about setting up your own little cloud haven? I’ve got you covered with this simple guide to getting started with Private Cloud Director Community Edition. Think of it as your friendly “let’s build something cool together” walkthrough. What’s Community Edition? This version of Private Cloud Director is awesome for

Pushkar Mulay · May 21, 2025 · 8 min read

7 top features to look for in VM migration tool

Top 7 features to look for in a VMware migration tool

SummaryLooking for a VMware migration tool to exit VMware? For many IT teams, it’s no longer a question of if they should migrate VMware workloads to another platform but of carefully choosing the right migration tool that can help them do it safely, efficiently, and affordably . Not all tools are created equal. When evaluating

Kamesh Pemmaraju · May 12, 2025 · 3 min read

Hyperconverged vs Disaggregated for VMware alternatives

Enterprise VMware Alternatives: Hyperconverged vs Disaggregated infrastructure

Summary Looking for enterprise VMware alternatives? Understand the difference between hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and disaggregated architectures. Learn why disaggregation offers greater flexibility, how VMware originally enabled this model, and how modern private clouds like Platform9 Private Cloud Director continue this open, ecosystem-friendly, hardware-agnostic path. Introduction: Why look beyond VMware? With Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, enterprises

Kamesh Pemmaraju · May 6, 2025 · 3 min read

Navigating your Private Cloud journey: From VMware expertise to Platform9 Private Cloud Director

If you’ve spent years mastering the intricacies of vSphere, vCenter, NSX, and the broader VMware ecosystem, you know the power and stability it brings to the data center. But the tech landscape is always evolving, and perhaps you’re exploring alternatives like Platform9 Private Cloud Director – maybe for cost reasons, flexibility, or a desire to

Chris Jones · April 30, 2025 · 5 min read

Storage Basics – Platform9 Private Cloud Director

In this blog, you will learn about Platform9 Private Cloud Director storage, including ephemeral (temporary) and persistent options. Discover Cinder’s block volume management with snapshots and resizing across backends like LVM, SAN, and NAS. Master storage policies via Cinder Volume Types and explore storage migration in Private Cloud Director. Introduction Storage is a fundamental pillar

Chris Jones · April 30, 2025 · 10 min read

Ensuring Uptime: VM High Availability in Platform9 Private Cloud Director

In this blog, you will learn about Platform9 Private Cloud Director’s Virtual Machine High Availability (VM HA), a feature that automatically restarts VMs on healthy hosts following a host failure, ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity. The blog details how VM HA mirrors VMware HA’s capabilities for KVM-based private clouds, highlighting requirements like shared storage

Chris Jones · April 30, 2025 · 5 min read

Modernizing Private Clouds: Kubernetes in Platform9 Private Cloud Director

In this blog, you will discover Platform9’s unique approach to unified VM and Kubernetes management and learn about modernizing private clouds with Kubernetes using Platform9 Private Cloud Director. You will also understand the benefits of Private Cloud Director’s Kubernetes cluster-hosted control plane, flexible deployment options on VMs or bare metal, and significant cost savings. Introduction

Chris Jones · April 30, 2025 · 6 min read

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