The 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 read
If 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 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
As 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 read
Last 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 read
We 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 read
In 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
VMware exits are turning into finance problems as often as they are infrastructure problems. After recent VMware licensing changes, many teams can agree on the direction, but still struggle to defend the numbers. In a January 2026 CloudBolt survey of North American enterprise IT decision-makers, 59% said their VMware costs increased by more than 25%
· February 20, 2026 · 11 min read
Broadcom ended the VCSP program, leaving thousands of MSP and CSPs with an expiration date on their virtualization licenses. Now what? The clock is ticking and service providers need to find an alternative solution that maintains their margins, provides at the very least equivalent enterprise-level virtualization features, and preserves their operational model. On top of
· February 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Infrastructure planning has become more reactive than strategic. Licensing resets arrive mid-cycle. Roadmaps shift without warning. Change windows stay tight. That pressure matters because the downside of “getting it wrong” is rarely abstract—outages are expensive and often tied to operational complexity. In fact, Uptime Institute’s 2024 Global Data Center Survey found that 54% of respondents
· February 13, 2026 · 12 min read
The past few years have turned infrastructure planning into a reactive loop. Licensing resets arrive mid-cycle. Vendor roadmaps shift without warning. “Modernization” gets demanded on timelines that do not match operational reality. For teams running large virtualization estates, the goal is not to chase novelty – it is to regain control. That means predictable operations,
· February 12, 2026 · 4 min read
If you’re considering a VMware alternative but require Veeam integration, we’re pleased to announce that Veeam Data Platform’s native integration with Platform9’s Private Cloud Director is in beta. The Universal Hypervisor API Veeam has built a Universal Hypervisor API based on oVirt, and Platform9 has implemented an adapter that translates those oVirt APIs to work
· February 5, 2026 · 4 min read
