Platform9 – VMWARE Alternative
What is Platform9 Private Cloud Director?
A complete private cloud platform built on open-source KVM. A central management plane controls your hypervisor hosts, storage and networks, and presents them to administrators and application teams through a familiar GUI, self-service portal and APIs.
Management plane
Handles placement, HA, tenancy, quotas, identity and monitoring. Delivered as SaaS by Platform9 or installed in your own data centre.
Platform9 OS
Hosts boot from a single ISO built on Rocky Linux from CIQ. The OS is managed by the platform — operators do not need to administer a Linux shell.
Your hardware
Certified with mainstream server and enterprise storage vendors, so existing investments carry forward into the private cloud.
Enterprise virtualization, cloud operations and Kubernetes
Everything an infrastructure team expects from a production platform, plus the self-service and automation of a public cloud.
VM lifecycle
- Create, clone, delete, snapshot
- Flavors (T-shirt sizing) and images
- cloud-init guest customization
- Hot-add CPU and memory
- Browser console, metadata and tags
High availability & resiliency
- VM high availability
- Live migration of running VMs
- Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
- Stretched clusters
- Affinity / anti-affinity rules
Storage
- Native drivers for enterprise SAN / NAS
- Live storage migration
- Storage policies and QoS
- Volume snapshots, resize and extend
- Array-based replication for DR
Software-defined networking
- Distributed virtual switching
- VLAN and VXLAN / Geneve overlays
- Virtual routers, DHCP and DNS
- Security groups and L4 load balancing
- VPN and NAT gateways
Multi-tenancy & security
- Tenants, projects and quotas
- LDAP / Active Directory and SAML 2.0 SSO
- Virtual TPM for guests
- Audit logging
- SOC 2 compliant vendor
Kubernetes & AI-ready
- Cluster API based Kubernetes
- Multiple node pools, auto-scaling
- GPU passthrough, vGPU and MIG
- NVIDIA GPU operator support
- Terraform provider and Ansible modules
Choose how the management plane is run
Workloads always stay on your hardware. Only the control plane location changes.
Platform9-hosted (SaaS)
Platform9 runs, monitors and upgrades the management plane, with operations and support engineers across multiple geographies. Your team focuses on workloads, not on running the cloud software.
Self-hosted
Install the same Private Cloud Director software inside your own data centre for regulated, air-gapped or data-sovereignty requirements.
Community Edition
Fully featured for a single region, with no time limit and community support. Ideal for labs, proofs of concept and skills building.
Move existing workloads in weeks, on the same hardware
vJailbreak is Platform9’s free, automated migration engine. It discovers source virtual machines, replicates them, replaces guest tools and drivers, and brings them up on Private Cloud Director with short cut-over windows.
In-place cluster conversion
Hosts are converted cluster by cluster to Private Cloud Director on the same servers. No parallel hardware estate is required.
Real-time replication
Data is copied while VMs keep running; guest drivers are updated automatically, keeping downtime to the final cut-over.
Bulk, scheduled waves
Select VMs, group them into waves and schedule them. Storage-assisted migration reuses existing arrays for speed.
Works with the vendors you already run
Storage
NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell / EMC, HPE, IBM, Hitachi Vantara, Tintri
Servers
Dell, HPE, Cisco, Lenovo and other mainstream x86 platforms
Backup & DR
Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas, Storware
Operations
Splunk, Okta, New Relic, ServiceNow, Grafana dashboards
Running in production at global enterprises
Fortune 500 global enterprise
Migrating across 3,000 hosts at around 200 VMs per day, reusing existing storage.
Industry-leading electronic design automation company
Large-scale migration with vJailbreak, serving ~20,000 platform users.
Global telecom operator
500 hosts migrated, integrated with world-leading enterprise storage and cyber security products.
From pilot to production with a local partner
TechVits Solutions brings Platform9 to Indian enterprises with in-country architecture, deployment and support teams.
Assess
Inventory current workloads, hardware and storage; map compatibility and size the target cloud.
Pilot
A scoped pilot on one site covering infrastructure, applications, deployment and validation.
Migrate
Wave-based migration with vJailbreak, run to an agreed plan and cut-over windows.
Operate
Day-2 managed services and SLA-backed support through the TechVits support centre.
One team, one email, one 30-day plan. That’s the TechVits × Platform9 commitment.