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0-60 Virtualization with Private Cloud Director

A free Hands-On Lab for VMware admins

Join our free, two-day Hands-On Lab designed for VMware admins exploring alternatives. You’ll learn how Platform9 Private Cloud Director can turn your existing infrastructure into a powerful KVM-based private cloud with enterprise features like HA, live migration, and more.

Just bring external SSH access and your questions (All hardware is provided by Platform9)

Day 1

September 9, 2025 – 9 AM PT 

Day 2

September 11, 2025 – 9 AM PT

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Why you should attend

  • A live, instructor led lab (2.5 hours/day) where you will explore a real private cloud environment.
  • High touch experience: One Platform9 engineer for every ~3 participants for hands-on guidance and personalized support.

Platform9 Private Cloud Director provides an enterprise-grade VMware alternative that is easy to adopt with the following capabilities:

  • A familiar GUI-based interface for traditional VM management
  • Seamless integration with existing storage, server, and network environments
  • Enterprise virtualization features for robust cluster management, including VM HA, Live Migration, and Dynamic Resource Rebalancing.
  • Zero‑downtime migration with vJailbreak, our free migration tool.

Session details

Day 1 schedule (2.5 hours)

  • 30 mins: Configure and setup Platform9 Private Cloud Director
    • Configure cluster templates (networking, storage, and defaults) – Blueprints
  • 30 mins: Add servers to the management plane – Install host agents
  • 15 mins: Authorize servers and assign roles (Hypervisor, storage role, & image library role)
  • 15 mins: Add images to Image Library
  • 15 mins: Create VM flavors
  • 30 mins: Deploying your first VM on KVM
  • 15 mins: Overflow

Day 2 schedule (2.5 hours)

  • 30 mins:  VM live migration, HA, and workload rebalancing
  • 30 mins:  Configuring block storage, storage classes, and backup options
  • 30 mins:  Enabling self-service and multi-tenancy (VDC equivalent)
  • 30 mins: Migrate VMs from VMware to Private Cloud Director
  • 30 mins: Overflow

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