vJailbreak In-Place Cluster Conversion
Platform9 offers the most automated migration path off VMware designed to preserve operational integrity while you move. Migrate your current virtualization environment and bring up Private Cloud Director in one integrated process, rather than a risky re-platforming project.
Full Stack Automation
From re-imaging to migration, the entire process of replacing your VMware infrastructure with a Private Cloud Director’s production ready environment is handled for you, minimizing business disruption and de-risking cutover.
Reprovision Hosts
It’s not just VMs. vJailbreak can automatically reimage your ESXi host as a Private Cloud Director server without impacting running VMs or applications.
Save Time and Labor
vJailbreak is the only migration solution that reduced migration time by 70%. Without manual context-switching, personnel requirements are cut in half.
Fortune 500 global enterprise migrating 40,000 VMs from VMware to Platform9 Private Cloud Director
- Migration of 40,000 VMs across 3,000 hosts using vJailbreak—maintaining business continuity at scale with no business disruption.
- Drop-in replacement for VMware features: DRS, VMware vMotion, VM-HA, NSX, self-service.
- Integration with existing Tintri storage with no new storage investment needed.
“We’ve looked at every solution on the market, and Platform9 is the only solution that meets all of our requirements.”
Free your VMs with vJailbreak
Move to an open, scalable, VMware-class private cloud platform. Migrate your VMs for free, avoid expensive migration tooling and licensing fees, and maintain the business continuity your teams rely on.
Easy to use GUI
A clean, intuitive UI eliminates the need for command-line expertise, making VMware migration effortless.
Fast execution
Automated workflows and real-time tracking speed up migration, reducing manual effort and ensuring efficiency.
Flexible migration options
Choose a fully automated migration or control exactly how and when the migration happens. The choice is yours.
Open, transparent, and community-driven
vJailbreak’s public GitHub repository makes the source code, contributions, and improvements visible to everyone. No black-box solutions, no hidden costs.
vJailbreak Features
Built to maintain VMware-class behavior while you move, so cutover feels familiar to your teams and invisible to your users.
Automated data sync
Keeps source and target VM disks in sync using Change Block Tracking (CBT).
OS compatibility
Supports most popular Linux and Windows versions.
Scalable architecture
vJailbreak can scale out to multiple copies of itself to perform parallel migrations at once.
Automatic discovery
Discover VMs and associated metadata, storage and network configuration for easy migration.
Automatic conversion
VM guest tools, devices and drivers are automatically converted on the fly.
Seamless cutover
vJailbreak preserves system identifiers, network configuration, and external storage connections.
Migrate to Private Cloud Director
Familiar GUI-based VM management
Easy-to-use private cloud software for VMware admins offering granular features to handle VMs with minimal to no downtime tolerance.
Integrates with your existing storage and server hardware
Protect your existing investments in storage, server hardware, and more. Avoid lock-in to Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) stacks or operating systems.
All the enterprise VM platform features you expect
Drop-in, enterprise-class replacement for VM High Availability, VMware DRS, VMware vMotion, Distributed Virtual Switches, Software Defined Networking, vVol, and more—so you preserve your operational intelligence while updating your virtualization solution
Schedule a demo of vJailbreak and Private Cloud Director
Let our product experts walk you through the migration process and show how you can achieve operational continuity and a low-risk cutover before moving production workloads.