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 cloud to edge application management. What’s new in this release?
- Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
- Two-Node High Availability (HA)
- Terraform-base Application Catalog
- VM-Level Metrics
- GPU Support
Let’s dig into the deets!
Predictive Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
Get the most out of your hardware with predictive Dynamic Resource Rebalancing. Similar to VMware’s DRS, Platform9’s DRR is a powerful capability in virtualization that automatically ensures optimal performance and efficiency across your infrastructure. As workloads fluctuate and resource demands shift, DRR continuously monitors CPU and memory usage across the cluster and intelligently redistributes VMs to prevent hotspots and underutilized hosts. This means fewer performance bottlenecks, higher VM density, and less manual intervention for IT teams. Whether you’re running a multi-tenant environment or scaling enterprise workloads, DRR keeps your virtual infrastructure responsive, efficient, and resilient — without the need to babysit it.
Two-Node High Availability (HA)
Ensure reliability even in small virtualization environments with Two-Node HA, using the gossip protocol to detect asymmetric failures and eliminate false positives, enabling highly reliable failover without unnecessary VM restarts. Platform9 supports full VM HA with just two compute nodes, using the management plane as a quorum witness to make safe failover decisions. This lightweight architecture is ideal for edge, branch, and departmental deployments, delivering enterprise-grade resilience without enterprise-sized infrastructure.
[Caption: “Figure1: Two-Node HA diagram – Platform9 delivers full VM HA with just two nodes and a quorum witness — ideal for edge or branch deployments.”]
Terraform-base Application Catalog
The modern alternative to VMware vApps, our catalog gives you the flexibility to deploy multiple VMs with predefined dependencies, networking, and resource configurations. Built on open-source Terraform, the catalog lets you orchestrate complex workloads across your private cloud, including settings for OS, CPU, RAM, storage, and public or private networking, all from reusable templates. Integration with Git-based repositories like GitHub or GitLab lets your teams manage and version infrastructure-as-code externally, ensuring consistency, auditability, and alignment with existing workflows. Whether you’re replacing vApps or modernizing app delivery, Platform9 makes self-service deployment simple, scalable, and fully automated.
VM-Level Metrics
Go beyond host monitoring with VM-level metrics. In addition to cluster- and host-level observability, Platform9 now delivers detailed VM-level utilization metrics to give administrators a clearer view into individual workload performance. Metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, and network usage are available directly within the Private Cloud Director (PCD) console and via the integrated Grafana dashboard, or exported to your current monitoring solutions, enabling both quick insights and advanced visualization. Now teams can track trends, identify resource bottlenecks, and make informed capacity planning decisions without needing third-party tools. It’s built-in observability for modern private cloud operations.
[Caption: “Figure2: VM metrics dashboards – Built-in observability down to the VM level, no third-party tools required.”]
GPU Support
Private Cloud Director now extends the virtualization stack to modern, demanding workloads with GPU support for both VMs and Kubernetes clusters. Resources can be configured for either GPU passthrough for dedicated GPU support, or virtualized (vGPU) for fractional GPU slices on supported hosts. Now high-performance workloads such as AI/ML, high resolution rendering, and simulation can be deployed in your virtualization environment.
And that’s not all. This release Private Cloud Director also brings strong support for multi-tenant and self-serve configurations. Included in this release:
Unified Tenant View Across Clusters
Managing multiple clusters? Now you can view and manage tenant workloads across clusters with a single, unified UI. This update dramatically simplifies operations for MSPs and large enterprises supporting multiple environments.
Enhanced Tenant Role Management
We’ve added more granular role-based access controls (RBAC) to give you fine-tuned control over what your tenants can (and can’t) do. It’s never been easier to enforce security and operational consistency across your cloud.
API-First Tenant Provisioning
For customers automating tenant onboarding, we’ve added new APIs that allow you to provision and configure tenants programmatically—ideal for large-scale or repeatable environments.
With this release, Platform9 Private Cloud Director continues to set the standard for VMware replacement, delivering the enterprise-grade features IT teams rely on, without the cost, complexity, or retooling. Whether you’re managing one site or a global fleet, Platform9 gives you a modern, open, and fully automated virtualization platform that’s ready for the future. Want to see it in action? Request a demo or explore our Community Edition today.
