Transition from VMware
If you’re considering transitioning from VMware to an alternative virtualization stack, the Private Cloud Director is an excellent choice. Platform9's Private Cloud Director offers features similar to those you’ve relied on in VMware for years.
To help you get started, here’s a simple glossary mapping familiar VMware features to their counterparts in the Private Cloud Director environment.
| Your favorite VMware feature | Equivalent in PCD |
|---|---|
| VMware vSphere Clusters | In PCD, Virtualized Clusters and host aggregates serve a similar purpose to vSphere clusters. |
| VMware vCenter Server | The PCD management plane manages infrastructure resources, similar to how vCenter orchestrates VMware environments. |
| VMware ESXi Host | PCD uses KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as the underlying hypervisor. |
| VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) | PCD Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR) manages the distribution of workloads & resource consumption across hosts. |
| VMware CPU and Memory over-commitment ratios | Private Cloud Director supports over-commitment ratio specification for CPU and Memory at a host or a host aggregate level. |
| VMware High Availability (HA) | PCD VM HA (2/4 nodes cluster) feature supports continuous availability of services. |
| VMware vMotion | PCD supports Live Migration to move instances across hosts without downtime. |
| VMware Storage vMotion | Private Cloud Director Storage Live Migration / Volume Retyping |
| VMware Virtual or Distributed Switch (vSwitch / DVSwitch) | PCD uses Open vSwitch to provide Distributed Virtual Switch equivalent capabilities. |
| VMware Template | In PCD, templates are referred to as Images, which are used to create new virtual machines. |
| VMware Snapshot | PCD support VM Snapshots for capturing the current state of a VM. |
| VMware NSX (Networking and Security) | PCD Networking Service offers full Software Defined Networking capabilities, including managing physical or virtual networks, routers, IP management, micro-segmentation, security policies, LBaaS, DNSaaS and more. |
| VMware Datacenter | PCD Regions, Domains, Tenants, and much more |
| VMware VMFS Datastore | PCD direct mount storage w/ storage LUNs (no shared file system) or with NFS backend |
| VMware vVol | PCD Volumes, Volume Types, Volume Snapshots |
| VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) Format | PCD uses the QCOW2 file format for virtual machine disk images. |
| vCenter Storage Policies | PCD Storage Types and Storage Groups |
| vApps and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) | PCD utilizes Heat orchestration templates & Terraform to automate composite cloud application deployment. |
| VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) | PCD supports disaster recovery through integration with most popular third-party backup and disaster recovery solutions. |
| VMware Resource Allocation (CPU/Memory) | PCD uses flavors to define VM configuration, including CPU and memory allocations. |
| VMware Content Library | PCD uses Image Library Service for VM templates and snapshots. |
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