Private Cloud Director
Replace your legacy virtualized infrastructure with a developer-friendly and cost-effective private cloud platform.
Key Capabilities
Production ready virtualization
- Comprehensive capabilities include cluster blueprints, advanced cluster resource management, cluster wide software-defined networks and infrastructure self-service.
- Leverage your existing hardware investments, such as enterprise storage systems.
- Easily migrate your VMs and infrastructure configurations with Project vJailbreak
Built for the enterprise
- Scale to hundreds of virtualized clusters with hundreds of hypervisors
- Choose from our flexible hosting options: available as a Platform9 hosted, fully managed SaaS control plane, or a self-managed deployment
- Industry-leading operational SLAs and uptime management
Integrated and extensible
- Compose your private cloud using virtualized or Kubernetes clusters, and associated infrastructure services
- Harness the rich and growing ecosystem of open-source infrastructure software using our open extensibility architecture
Our pedigree with private clouds
Experience with large-scale deployments with 20,000+ nodes under management
Deep knowledge and innovations in open-source cloud software
More than $100M invesment in world-class R&D and IP innovation
Unmatched customer operational experience with Always On-Assurance™
Virtualized clusters features
Open architecture & APIs
Virtualized Clusters can be consumed with open-source APIs, powered by the KVM hypervisor, select OpenStack technologies and the Open Virtual Network framework.
Private Cloud Director provides its own APIs to manage the lifecycle and configuration of Virtualized Clusters.
Delightful and simplified user experience
Virtualized Clusters are designed to operate just like VMware clusters, allowing VMware administrators to easily understand and manage them. Private Cloud Director provides delightful UI for a curated admin and end user experience.
Cluster resource management
By default, Virtualized Clusters are configured to support Virtual Machine High Availability and Automatic Resource Rebalancing.
Cluster wide distributed Software Defined Networks
Clusters can be configured to work with either existing physical networks, or to use software defined networks, routers, switches and network services that span across the entire cluster.
This simplifies operations and improves availability as Virtual Machines and network configuration can be migrated to any hypervisor in the cluster, without any change in network policy.
Self-service and multi-tenancy
Tenant organizations can be easily defined and managed, with quotas and RBAC policies assigned to tenants.
Enterprise IT teams or MSPs can easily offer shared Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) by white-labeling the Private Cloud Director user interface.
Simplified migration with project vJailbreak
Project vJailbreak, a business source tool that comes with Private Cloud Director, removes the complexity out of the migration project.
vJailbreak discovers your virtualization environment, making it easy to map and migrate to Private Cloud Director. Live migrate running VMs (with change block tracking) or offline VMs, with an easy-to-use user interface as well as a powerful underlying API.
Kubernetes clusters features
Natively integrated with virtualized clusters
Kubernetes Clusters use Virtualized Clusters as a cloud provider, using features such as node pools, cluster auto-scaling, persistent volumes and load balancers.
This native integration enables rapid deployment, scaling, and integration with containerized workloads running in virtualized clusters.
Maximize your Kubernetes infrastructure utilization by using hypervisor-level resource over-commitment.
Open cluster API architecture
Kubernetes Clusters are based on the Cluster API architecture.
This ensures several benefits including:
- Open-standards based API for cluster lifecycle management
- Extensibility with a variety of cluster add-ons and infrastructure providers
- Consistent operability with other Cluster API based deployments, such as in public clouds
Hosted K8s control plane experience
Eliminate the operational and resource overhead of Kubernetes control plane (master nodes).
Hosted control plane nodes run “virtual masters” on a centralized infrastructure cluster. You have the flexibility of using the Platform9 SaaS infrastructure to host these control planes or to host these on another Kubernetes cluster in your environment.
Run small clusters (1 or 2 nodes) or larger numbers of smaller clusters with workload isolation.
Rolling in-place upgrades
Platform9 has supported in-place Kubernetes, backed by our Always-On Assurance, longer than anyone else in the industry.
Run production and performance sensitive apps with confidence, knowing that upgrades will be smooth and non-disruptive.
Flexible add-on management
Kubernetes clusters come out of the box with commonly used add-ons, including:
- CoreDNS
- Networking operator for Calico
- Kubernetes dashboard
Run additional add-ons with confidence using sveltos add-on manager.
Multi-tenant, multi-cluster Management
Centralize operations of hundreds of clusters from a single Platform9 deployment.
Unify access controls for all clusters with sophisticated Role Based Access Control (RBAC) integrated with the SSO infrastructure of your enterprise.
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Take a free hands-on lab
Our monthly hands-on labs, run by our engineers, are consistently top-rated. We provide the lab hardware and create an interactive, guided experience, allowing you to learn alongside other practitioners in the community.
Download the free community edition
Download the community edition of Private Cloud Director to run in your own environment at your own pace. It’s free for learning and lab use but not intended for production environments.
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