Managed OpenStack

Managed OpenStack with Always-on Assurance™

Platform9 has made OpenStack easy and consumable. Leaving VMware has never been easier –  just connect your ESX hosts and go. 

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Trusted by leading companies

Features that will delight your engineers and simplify operations

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Built-in monitoring

Our internal telemetry monitors OpenStack software health 24×7, freeing you from the task.
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Enterprise support and SLAs

With proactive remote monitoring and troubleshooting, our world-class support team guarantees 99.95% uptime.
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Zero-touch upgrades

We handle backup, rollout, validation, and finalization of your OpenStack upgrades.
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RBAC support, SSO and multi-tenancy

Identity management through SSO solutions like AD, LDAP, Okta, coupled with built-in multi-tenancy and quota management.
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Unified management

Manage mixed hypervisors and multi-tenancy across diverse data centers, offering unified control and global visibility from a single interface.
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Open platform

From vSphere to Docker, we’re platform-agnostic. Our open APIs integrate easily with your preferred systems and DevOps tools.

Data service provider uses Platform9 OpenStack to save 4x cost and boost efficiency

  • Scalability for hundreds of hypervisors and thousands of VMs.
  • Configuring in twenty minutes what could take up to six weeks.
  • Minimal use of public clouds.
Case Study
It’s amazing that as complex as OpenStack is to run, Platform9 has made it extraordinarily easy for admins. A Linux administrator who hasn’t touched OpenStack before can pick up Platform9 and get things up-and-running in no time.
Senior IT Manager

Data Services Company

5 Steps to OpenStack in Minutes

Step 1: Sign up and install host agent

Sign up to receive your dedicated OpenStack control plane. Then, swiftly install the Platform9 host agent on your server, establishing an HTTPS connection to your OpenStack controller.

Step 1: Sign up and install host agent

Step 2: Authorize servers

Authorize servers by determining and assigning their roles:

Hypervisor: Can run virtual machine instances (Nova Compute)
Image Library: Can serve VM images to hypervisors (Glance)
Storage Endpoint: Can interface with block storage (Cinder)
Network Endpoint: Can interface with networks (Nova or Neutron)

Step 2: Authorize servers

Step 3: Import images

Allow the Image Library to discover your existing VM disk images or import Platform9-maintained pre-configured images. Review and tailor the available VM flavors to your environment. Use host aggregates to define resource tiers with tags and map them to specific flavors.

Step 3: Import images

Step 4: Add users, go live!

Onboard self-service users and establish tenant groups, assigning roles within each tenant. Control access to VM images, flavors, and networks per tenant. Congratulations, you’re now live with OpenStack! Let Platform9 handle all future maintenance and operations.

Screen 4: Add users, go live!

Step 5: Get started now!

Begin your journey. Reach out to us and discover how effortlessly you can establish and operate an OpenStack private cloud in your data center.

Step 5: Get started now!

0-60 with OpenStack: A self-paced lab

This 8-session video series will help you understand how easy it is to get up & running with Platform9 OpenStack. This is designed for VMware administrators who are considering KVM/OpenStack as an alternative hypervisor.

Featured technical resources

Resource: Deployment models for OpenStack

Deployment models for OpenStack

Resource: Solving five pain points of private clouds

Solving five pain points of private clouds

Resource: 7 Ways OpenStack enables automation and agility for KVM environment

7 Ways OpenStack enables automation and agility for KVM environment

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