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Top 3 benefits of switching to Private Cloud Director
One platform to manage VMs and containers with all virtualization features you rely on, fully integrated with your existing tools.
Familiar VM operations
All the advanced virtualization features you expect, managed with your existing skills.
Minimal training and onboarding time for your teams.
Integrate with existing storage
Only private cloud solution with deep integration with all existing enterprise storage. Protect your storage investment.
Avoid cost and lock-in of Hyper Converged infrastructure.
Automated migration
Migrate thousands of VMs from VMware in weeks, not months, using vJailbreak, our free tool.
Automation reduces costs to just one-tenth the cost of some industry analyst estimates.
Top 5 enterprise features
Private Cloud Director offers drop-in replacement for all key virtualization features you rely on for enterprise SLA
- VM High Availability
- Automatic relocation of VMs on host failure
- VM-HA is enabled by default
- Ensure business continuity and maintain critical operations
- VM Live Migration
- Migrate VMs across hosts with a single click
- Migration includes VM’s memory, network connectivity, and storage
- Perform maintenance and upgrades without disrupting service.
- Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
- Similar to VMware DRS. Automatically balances workloads across cluster nodes.
- Continuously tracks and adjusts resource usage as demand changes.
- Maximizes VM uptime and resource efficiency while minimizing manual effort
- Software Defined Networking
- Create and reconfigure virtual / overlay networks on demand
- Microsegmentation using security groups and ports to control traffic
- Deploy DNS, load balancer, firewall, VPN as a service
- Operational security
- Control and restrict user access with identity and access management.
- Isolate tenants and workloads through resource segmentation.
- Secure servers, networking, storage with layered operational security.
Integrate with your existing tools
Private Cloud Director integrates with all your existing tools to ensure that your production environments keep running post migration.
Works seamlessly with all existing storage and servers
Enterprise platforms
Backup native incremental forever
Backup agent-based
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Streamlined migration process
Escape from VMware future uncertainty and get back to delivering value to customers. Our experts handle VMware migration from start to finish using our automated tool, vJailbreak.
Connect
vJailBreak connects to your VMware environment. Kicks off rolling cluster migration.
Migrate
Hosts go in maintenance mode, storage and networking configuration ported over.
Review
Complete clusters migrated.
Process repeats for all clusters.
Enterprise-grade Support
From the start of your migration from VMware through to everyday operations
“Platform9’s support is a night and day difference compared to other vendors. Their support responds promptly to critical incidents and proactively offers help over Zoom, even before I submit a ticket.”
Minimal downtime during migration
- Keep the business running while migration happens in the background
- Flexible cutover options that work with agreed maintenance windows
- End users won’t even notice you’ve made the switch
Support you can count on
- Our support team is always just one call away
- We guarantee financially backed SLAs
- 100% CSAT scores four years in a row
Flexible management options
Platform9-hosted Management Plane
Choose a Platform9-hosted management plane and let us take care of the maintenance burden with proactive support.
Self-hosted Management Plane
Host the Private Cloud Director management plane on your own hardware. Best option for enterprises with specialized security needs,.
Community Edition
Try out Private Cloud Director in your own environment for free. No limits. Community support only.
Experience Private Cloud Director
Discover how Private Cloud Director can help you migrate seamlessly from VMware into a powerful private cloud that gives you complete control without complexity.
Speak to an expert
Our product experts will walk you through how Private Cloud Director can address your unique challenges and answer implementation questions.
Hands-on lab
Join our monthly workshops and get hands-on experience with Private Cloud Director. Let our specialists guide you through an interactive session showcasing real-world scenarios.
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Migration FAQs
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Check out the full FAQ blog: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for VMware users moving to Private Cloud Director