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 readA guide for MSPs navigating the VMware conversation with confidence Something shifted in the VMware world when Broadcom completed its acquisition. Licensing costs spiked, support models changed, and customers who had never given a second thought to their virtualization stack were suddenly calling their MSPs asking what it all means. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: your
· March 31, 2026 · 9 min readMost managed service providers didn’t see it coming, not because they weren’t paying attention, but because the nature of the risk had been hiding in plain sight. VMware’s pricing overhaul wasn’t just a contract renegotiation. It was a structural revelation: what the industry had long treated as enterprise-standard infrastructure was, in reality, a dependency with
· March 25, 2026 · 6 min readIf you’re an MSP or CSP, you already know the headline: Broadcom cancelled the VCSP program, and the window to find an alternative is closing fast. What’s less talked about is the compounding problem underneath it. The VMware stack you need to replace isn’t one product — it’s six, each with its own license, its
· March 18, 2026 · 4 min readExecutive 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 readThe Broadcom acquisition of VMware is disrupting the entire virtualization market. For many organizations the new world order just doesn’t work: licensing costs have ballooned, support models have shifted, and the long-term roadmap feels murkier than ever. The fallout is an urgent wave of VMware displacement that shows no signs of slowing down. For Managed
· March 10, 2026 · 9 min readIf you’ve worked through evaluating VMware alternatives, built a production readiness checklist, and modeled the cost comparison, you’re ready for the part that actually matters: migrating off VMware without breaking production. This is the final piece in our VMware alternatives series, and it’s the one that bridges planning and execution. Everything upstream — evaluation, cost
· March 6, 2026 · 13 min readExecutive 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 readAs enterprises struggle to devise a VMware exit, many will turn to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for assistance in planning and executing a successful, non-disruptive migration of their virtual infrastructure. This presents a unique opportunity for MSPs who can deliver a migration strategy that brings value to their clients while improving their services bottom line.
· March 4, 2026 · 4 min readLast week, Platform9 hosted a live webinar demonstrating vJailbreak‘s VM migration capabilities. What began as a straightforward product demonstration evolved into a substantive discussion about the requirements for safely migrating production workloads away from VMware. We migrated a Windows 10 VM from vCenter to Private Cloud Director in under 19 minutes during the live session,
· February 27, 2026 · 8 min readWe recently hosted a live webinar where we walked through a real VM migration from vCenter to Private Cloud Director using vJailbreak, and the response was overwhelming. Not just in attendance, but in the quality of questions and the post-event survey data. The audience wasn’t just browsing. They were planning. In this post, I’d like
· February 26, 2026 · 5 min readIn the post-Broadcom landscape of 2026, the focus has changed from “Do I have to exit” to “What’s the best migration plan?” Organizations are no longer just looking for a new hypervisor; they are looking for an exit strategy that doesn’t interrupt their business or overload their resources. Finding the right migration strategy has the
· February 26, 2026 · 5 min read