Blog Summary Are you looking for a VMware alternative for your lab, SMB, or enterprise environment? This blog post compares the top five VMware ESXi alternatives, which include Platform9, Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Virtualization. Whether you are concerned about Broadcom’s pricing changes or want to regain infrastructure control, compare your best
· May 2, 2025 · 5 min read
The past several years have seen fast growth in enterprise hybrid cloud adoption as more and more businesses seek a hypothetical sweet spot between purist extremes of 100% private cloud and 100% public. In the process, according to studies by Intel and others (including Platform9), the industry has refined our understanding of where that sweet
· January 8, 2018 · 6 min read
In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9 managed OpenStack, customers can now use the same capability in their KVM environment as well. To try out this new capability, please contact our
· February 24, 2017 · 3 min read
The Platform9 team was at VMworld 2016 recently, and the results from our survey on trends in enterprise cloud infrastructure are in. We gathered insights from speaking to over a thousand people, 300 of whom gave us quantitative feedback by participating in our survey. VMworld Audience To start, we asked about roles and responsibilities. Not
· September 27, 2016 · 3 min read
One of the reasons customers choose Platform9 as their cloud management platform is because it easily integrates with existing virtualized environments. Customers find great value in the ability to take their current VMware vSphere and/or KVM environment and transform them into a self-service private cloud – without having to create a separate silo or provision new and expensive
· January 19, 2016 · 6 min read
For any cloud administrator, one of the essential starting points for managing their cloud deployment is to ensure there is a consistent set of base images from which appropriate instances can be spawned. A popular tool that helps with such cloud image management is Packer, developed by HashiCorp, the makers of Vagrant. Packer allows you
· January 13, 2016 · 6 min read
One of the benefits that Platform9 customers most value with our managed cloud offering is the ability to take advantage of new innovations and capabilities without having to shoulder the burden that often comes with new software releases. This includes all the testing that needs to be performed prior to putting new technology in production. It includes
· November 18, 2015 · 3 min read
Have you ever botched your VM’s network configuration? Maybe you forgot to allow SSH traffic in your firewall settings? How do you fix the network configuration when you cannot even SSH into your VM? One usually sits in front of their physical machine to fix such issues. But with the advent of virtualization, there is
· November 11, 2015 · 4 min read
It’s been few days since the most recent OpenStack Summit ended and the word that comes to mind when I reflect on the week that just past is “stability.” Some may even call it boring and that is a good thing. This is not to say there wasn’t exciting news such as new customer use cases
· November 5, 2015 · 4 min read
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with GE Cloud Infrastructure Architect Cody Hill when he swung by our Silicon Valley office. In a Q&A session with the Platform9 team, Cody shared his perspective on cloud computing, public vs. private cloud, OpenStack, containers, SaaS and more. Here are the highlights: Sirish Raghuram (SR):
· November 4, 2015 · 8 min read
Last week, I joined the Platform9 team at the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It was exciting to be a part of the premier industry conference for cloud infrastructure and to learn from great conversations I had with others at the show. It became clear to me that for those attending AWS re:Invent, it’s not
· October 15, 2015 · 3 min read
We recently announced General Availability for Platform9 support of VMware vSphere, including 100% interoperability with existing vSphere infrastructure and management tools to make Platform9 the best cloud management solution for vSphere. I highlighted the benefits of our solution in a blog post and indicated that we would be providing more technical details in the future.
· September 10, 2015 · 7 min read