Private Cloud Director
Turn your existing infrastructure into a full-featured, VMware-class private cloud. Manage VMs and containers in a private, secure environment you control without proprietary lock-in.
Private Cloud Director August release is here.
Embrace private cloud with Platform9
Familiar VM management
- All the enterprise VM platform features you rely on: VM High Availability, live migration (VMware vMotion-equivalent), Software Defined Networking, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (VMware DRS-like behavior), and more.
- Familiar GUI-based interface for traditional VM management.
- Migrate easily with vJailbreak, our engine to automate the migration of VMware virtual datacenters to Private Cloud Director with zero forced modernization. Keep your familiar operations and high availability today, while securing an open, cost-effective future on your timeline.
- Exiting VMware? See how Private Cloud Director matches the features you rely on—and where it goes further.
Enterprise cloud ready
- Manage hundreds of hosts and thousands of VMs with the private cloud built for enterprise scale, on the infrastructure you already own.
- Flexible infrastructure deployment options for your varied needs.
- Centralized in datacentres or distributed in edge sites, manage everything with the same unified experience.
- Enterprise-class security features keep your data safe and secure.
- Run traditional VM-based workloads and new container-based apps on the same integrated platform using VMware-class capabilities today—with a clear bridge to cloud-native architectures tomorrow.
Integrated and extensible
- Integrates with storage from NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell/EMC, HPE, IBM and more. See the full list of supported storage platforms.
- Deploy on servers from Dell, HPE, Cisco, Lenovo, and more.
- Protect your data with integrations to enterprise backup systems from Commvault, Veeam, Veritas, Rubrik, and Cohesity.
- Integrates with enterprise operations systems like Splunk, Okta, New Relic, ServiceNow, and more.
Private Cloud Director architecture
Private Cloud Director’s management plane lets you turn your existing server, storage, and network infrastructure into a full-featured, multi-tenant private cloud that behaves like VMware without the Broadcom tax
Flexible management and support options
Platform9-hosted management plane
Choose a Platform9-hosted management plane and let us take care of the maintenance burden for you. With proactive operations and support engineers in multiple geographies, you get VMware-class reliability for the management stack—without having to run it yourself.
Self-hosted management plane
For those with specialized security needs, host the Private Cloud Director management plane yourself and take complete control over your environment. Get the same Private Cloud Director software we use ourselves.
Enterprise VM management
All the enterprise VM management features you expect from a production-ready solution: VM HA, snapshots, live migration (VMware vMotion-equivalent), Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (VMware DRR / DRS-like), and more—all delivered on the infrastructure you already have.
Modern apps in VMs or containers
First-class support for containers and VMs in the same unified platform.
Your infrastructure, your way
Connect existing infrastructure from a wide range of enterprise vendors. Your servers, your storage, your networks. Your private cloud.
Customers using Private Cloud Director
Fortune 500 global enterprise proving operational continuity while migrating 40,000 VMs from VMware to Platform9 Private Cloud Director
- Migration of 40,000 VMs across 3000 hosts using vJailbreak
- Replacement for VMware features: DRS, vMotion, VM-HA, NSX, self-service.
- Integration with Tintri storage—no new investment needed
“We’ve looked at every solution on the market, and Platform9 is the only solution that meets all of our requirements.”
“We gave Platform9’s Private Cloud Director to one of our VMware admins and with zero training, he was creating and managing VMs.”
Global Telecom company validates VMware-class behavior while migrating 2,800 VMs across 500 hosts using vJailbreak
- Migration of 2,800 VMs across 500 hosts using vJailbreak
- Drop-in replacement for VMware features: vMotion, DRS, VM High Availability
- Integration with existing NetApp and FortiNet environments
Global Infrastructure provider proves workflow integrity for critical VMware enterprise workloads.
- Drop-in Replacement for critical VMware Enterprise Features: Storage Volumes, vMotion, Tanzu Kubernetes
- Integration with existing Dell EMC Storage
- Migration of 450 VMware hosts and 3600 VMs using vJailbreak
“Platform9’s unique offering combines best-of-breed virtualization platform, automated VM migration tooling and built-in Kubernetes, enabling our vision of cloud-native apps.”
What’s New in Private Cloud Director
We’re continuing to make private clouds easy with new and enhanced functionality—deepening enterprise-class capabilities where it matters, while opening up new options from virtualization modernization to edge applications.
Two-Node High Availability (HA)
Private Cloud Director delivers enterprise grade resilience without enterprise sized infrastructure. Requiring only two nodes, this is ideal for edge, branch, and departmental deployments.
Predictive Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
Keep your virtual infrastructure responsive and efficient. DRR continuously monitors CPU and memory usage across the cluster automatically ensuring optimal performance and efficiency.
VM-Level Metrics
Observability is built in as administrators get a clear view of the cluster down to individual workload performance. Get quick insights and advanced visualization in the console or export metrics to your organizational monitoring solution.
The latest release also includes GPU support, a Terraform-based Application Catalog, and improved tenant management
Experience
Private Cloud Director for yourself
Discover how Private Cloud Director can transform your infrastructure into a powerful, enterprise-class private cloud that gives you complete control without complexity. Choose from our interactive hands-on lab or a personalized demo to see VMware-like behavior, migration, and operations in action on a platform that runs on what you already own.
Check out our YouTube channel to see for yourself.
Take a free hands-on lab
Join our monthly instructor-led workshops where you’ll get direct, practical experience with Private Cloud Director. Our specialists guide you through real-world scenarios so you can validate familiar features, functionality, and day-2 operations before you move a single production workload.
Get a live demo
Schedule a personalized live demo tailored to your specific needs. Our product experts will walk you through how Private Cloud Director can address your unique challenges and answer any questions you have about implementation and integration.