Damian Karlson, Author at Platform9

Technical Bulletin: KVM and QCOW2 Architecture in Private Cloud Director

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

Damian Karlson · March 6, 2026 · 6 min read

Beyond the Demo: What Our vJailbreak Migration Webinar Revealed About Safe VMware Exits

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,

Damian Karlson · February 27, 2026 · 8 min read

Escaping VMware: 5 Takeaways from Our vJailbreak Migration Webinar

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

Damian Karlson · February 26, 2026 · 5 min read

How Veeam Works with Platform9 Private Cloud Director

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

Damian Karlson · February 5, 2026 · 4 min read

Your Tour of the Power-Packed Private Cloud Director, Community Edition August Release

Well, I missed an opportunity to talk about Private Cloud Director, Community Edition. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. But the saying is “better late than never”, so here we are. Last month we released our latest version of Community Edition (CE). It’s 2025.8, known as “August” in our Slack. We released at the end of August,

Damian Karlson · October 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Why choose Platform9 for your private cloud needs?

The IT landscape is rapidly evolving, and enterprises realize that private cloud solutions are required to unlock greater operational agility, cost-efficiency, and control over their infrastructure. However, disruptive changes to enterprise cloud solution providers have IT teams challenged with vendor lock-in, skyrocketing costs, and capability gaps for desired private cloud agility. That’s where Platform9 Private

Damian Karlson · March 24, 2025 · 4 min read

From VMware to Private Cloud Director: Mastering Multi-Tenancy with Identity and Domains

For VMware administrators, managing multiple teams, departments, or customers in a private cloud has always required careful planning and extra licensing. The challenge you wanted to solve is finding a balance between isolation and flexibility without adding operational complexity or costs. VMware environments typically use vCenters for high-level separation, and Virtual Data Centers (vDCs) as

Damian Karlson · March 11, 2025 · 5 min read

Private Cloud Director: DNSaaS & LBaaS

Hey everyone, just wanted to share a couple of highlights from the February 2025 release of Private Cloud Director. Before we jump into that, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context. Private Cloud Director is a leading VMware alternative that offers the enterprise virtualization features you trust alongside native Kubernetes workloads on

Damian Karlson · March 10, 2025 · 2 min read

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