Private Cloud Director
Easy-to-use software that turns your existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud. Manage VMs and containers in a private, secure environment controlled by you.
Embrace Private Cloud with Platform9
Familiar VM Management
- All the enterprise VM platform features you expect: VM High Availability, live migration, Software Defined Networking, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, and more.
- Familiar GUI-based interface for traditional VM management.
- Migrate easily with vJailbreak. Execute live or cold migration of entire vSphere clusters over to Private Cloud Director in weeks and at one tenth the cost industry analyst estimates.
- Used to VMware? See how Private Cloud Director compares.
Enterprise Cloud Ready
- Scale to hundreds of hosts and thousands of VMs with the same private cloud experience.
- Flexible infrastructure deployment options for your varied needs.
- Centralized in datacentres or distributed in edge sites, manage everything with the same unified experience.
- Enterprise-class security features keep your data safe and secure.
- Run traditional VM-based workloads and new container-based apps on the same integrated platform.
Integrated and Extensible
- Integrates with storage from NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell/EMC, HPE, IBM and more. See the full list of supported storage platforms.
- Deploy on servers from Dell, HPE, Cisco, Lenovo, and more.
- Protect your data with integrations to enterprise backup systems from Commvault, Veeam, Veritas, Rubrik, and Cohesity.
- Integrates with enterprise operations systems like Splunk, Okta, New Relic, ServiceNow, and more.
Private Cloud Director Architecture
Install the Private Cloud Director host software and pool your existing server, storage and network infrastructure into a full-featured multi-tenant private cloud.
Flexible management and support options
Platform9-hosted Management Plane
Choose a Platform9-hosted management plane and let us take care of the maintenance burden for you. With proactive operations/support and a 100% customer satisfaction rating, you know you’re in good hands.
Self-hosted Management Plane
For those with specialized security needs, host the Private Cloud Director management plane yourself and take complete control over your environment. Get the same Private Cloud Director software we use ourselves.
Community Edition
Run Private Cloud Director in your own environment for free, fully featured for one single region, with no time limits. Community support only. Download and install the Community Edition here.
Key Features
Enterprise VM management
All the enterprise VM management features you expect: VM HA, snapshots, live migration, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR), and more.
Modern Apps in VMs or Containers
First-class support for containers and VMs in the same unified platform.
Your infrastructure, your way
Connect existing infrastructure from a wide range of enterprise vendors. Your servers, your storage, your networks. Your private cloud.
Customers using Private Cloud Director
Fortune 500 global enterprise migrating 40,000 VMs from VMware to Platform9 Private Cloud Director
- Replacement for VMware features: DRS, vMotion, VM-HA, NSX, self-service.
- Integration with Tintri storage—no new investment needed.
- Migration of 40,000 VMs across 3000 hosts using vJailbreak.
“We’ve looked at every solution on the market, and Platform9 is the only solution that meets all of our requirements.”
“We gave Platform9’s Private Cloud Director to one of our VMWare admins and with zero training, he was creating and managing VMs.”
Global Telecom company migrates 2800 VMs across 500 hosts using vJailbreak
- Drop-in replacement for VMware features: vMotion, DRS, VM High Availability
- Integration with existing NetApp and FortiNet environments.
- Migration of 2,800 VMs across 500 hosts using vJailbreak.
Global Infrastructure provider
- Drop-in Replacement for critical VMware Enterprise Features: Storage Volumes, v-Motion, Tanzu Kubernetes
- Integration with Existing Dell EMC Storage
- Migration of 450 VMware hosts and 3600 of VMs using vJailbreak
“Platform9’s unique offering combines best-of-breed virtualization platform, automated VM migration tooling and built-in Kubernetes, enabling our vision of cloud-native apps.”
Experience
Private Cloud Director for yourself
Discover how Private Cloud Director can transform your infrastructure into a powerful private cloud platform that gives you complete control without complexity: choose from our interactive hands-on lab or a personalized demo to see the product in action firsthand.
Take a free hands-on lab
Join our monthly engineer-led workshops where you’ll get direct, practical experience with Private Cloud Director. Our specialists provide everything you need and guide you through an interactive session alongside fellow professionals, showcasing the full capabilities of Private Cloud Director in real-world scenarios.
Get a live demo
Schedule a personalized live demo tailored to your specific needs. Our product experts will walk you through how Private Cloud Director can address your unique challenges and answer any questions you have about implementation and integration.