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Technical Bulletin: KVM and QCOW2 Architecture in Private Cloud Director

Executive Summary Private Cloud Director uses KVM as its hypervisor and QCOW2 as its native disk format. This architectural choice decouples the hypervisor, disk format, and storage layers eliminating the tight interdependencies that characterize the vSphere stack and providing infrastructure teams with a non-proprietary foundation for their virtual machine workloads. Because every layer in the

Damian Karlson · March 6, 2026 · 6 min read

Integrating SolidFire Block Storage with OpenStack Cinder

We’ve received incredibly positive responses to our recent partnership announcement with SolidFire to integrate their all-flash enterprise storage with our Platform9 Cloud management-as-a-Service solution. In a previous post, I discussed the use cases for block storage in a cloud platform such as OpenStack. I also walked through the various options for deploying Cinder block storage in OpenStack

Platform9 · September 15, 2015 · 6 min read

SolidFire Storage Now Available with Platform9 OpenStack

One of the primary benefits of an open platform such as OpenStack is its ability to be an integration engine for various cloud technologies. This gives users the flexibility to choose best of breed compute, networks, and storage technologies to build out their private cloud while retaining the benefits of a common management framework for operators and

Platform9 · August 31, 2015 · 6 min read