Platform9 Systems

06/02/2025

Ever wondered how modern handle load balancing without dedicated appliances?

In his latest blog, Chris Jones delves into how Platform9 Private Cloud Director leverages Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), powered by OVN, to efficiently distribute network traffic across backend servers. This approach eliminates the need for separate load balancer VMs, streamlining deployment and management.

Key takeaways from the blog include:

🔹 The role of OVN in implementing load balancing directly within the distributed virtual router.
🔹 How this method compares to traditional solutions like VMware NSX.
🔹 The components involved in setting up LBaaS, such as listeners and pools.

If you're exploring efficient and modern load balancing solutions for private clouds, this is a good read for you: https://bit.ly/3EXxYms

05/31/2025

The word is spreading! Our Platform9 Private Cloud Director Community Edition is creating a buzz, and we're thrilled to see the community embrace this free, full-featured private cloud solution!

A big thank you to Eric Wright for this great article highlighting the Community Edition and its impact!

Experience the power of a modern private cloud on your own hardware – it's free, full-featured, and built for everyone from homelabbers to seasoned vAdmins. https://lnkd.in/gYv8vP_h

05/30/2025

VMware admins deal with lot of complexities like managing datastores, wrangling LUNs, and navigating vVols.

What if every VM could use exactly the right storage—across different vendors, in the same hypervisor cluster?

With Platform9 Private Cloud Director, that’s not just possible—it’s simple.
✅ Mix and match storage types per VM to fit the workload
✅ Attach volumes from multiple storage vendors—no lock-in
✅ Manage it all through an API-driven

Learn how this flexible approach redefines storage for private cloud and to see why Private Cloud Director is the modern VMware alternative:
https://bit.ly/3EpWtbJ

Explore VMware alternatives like Platform9 Private Cloud Director for effortless virtual machine storage management.

05/29/2025

Is your enterprise rethinking VMware for 2025? You're not alone.

The world is shifting, and IT leaders are looking for clearer pricing, full features, and simpler migration.

Our latest blog post highlights Platform9’s Private Cloud Director as a standout choice. It offers:

✅ Enterprise-grade features: Everything you rely on for VMs and containers.
✅ Seamless migration: Tools like Project make moving workloads easy.
✅ Flexibility: Integrates with your existing hardware investments.
✅ Future-ready: A solid foundation to optimize IT and reduce costs.

Discover why organizations are choosing Platform9 to modernize their private cloud infrastructure.

Read more in the blog:

We’ll look at the top 4 VMware alternatives available in 2025, and spotlight why Platform9’s Private Cloud Director is a standout choice.

05/28/2025

Ever dreamed of running your own private cloud but felt overwhelmed by complexity or costs? Platform9's Private Cloud Director Community Edition changes the game.

In this hands-on walk-through, Rich from demonstrates how he set up a full-featured private cloud in his homelab—no vendor lock-in, no Kubernetes expertise required, and zero licensing fees.

🎥 Watch the video to see how easy it is to get started: https://youtu.be/-wd77WSL2P4

Ever wanted to run your own private cloud, but OpenStack felt like too much? Same here—until now. I took Platform9’s new Community Edition of Private Cloud D...

05/27/2025

Frustrated with VMware’s new licensing model post-Broadcom acquisition? You’re not alone. Many organizations are navigating uncertainty, and we’re here to help. Join us live on May 28 at 9AM PT / 11AM CT as Chris Jones and 👨🏻‍💻Damian Karlson break down what these changes mean for you—and how to move forward confidently.

We’ve helped Fortune 500 companies transition off with minimal downtime, modernizing their virtualization infrastructure to run VMs using Private Cloud Director

We'll cover:
✅ When it makes sense to stay vs. move
✅ How to plan a migration off VMware
✅ Learn about Private Cloud Director as a VMware Alternative

🔍 Ask us anything. We'll be live on Reddit for 2 hours: https://lnkd.in/g_xHdva9

05/27/2025

Feeling in urgent need of a VMware off-ramp after their latest actions? Read our open letter to customers on how Platform9 promises made are promises kept and why Private Cloud Director is the obvious choice for .

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05/27/2025

Facing rising VMware costs & vendor lock-in? A leading global telecommunications provider faced this exact challenge with a sprawling infrastructure of 2,800 VMs across 500 hosts.

They partnered with Platform9. Our Private Cloud Director enabled them to:

✅ Transitioning away from expensive VMware licensing to achieve significant savings.
✅ Gaining the flexibility and control they needed over their infrastructure.
✅ Migrating 2,800 VMs in under six months, leveraging our vJailbreak tool for complex workloads, minimizing disruption.
✅ Ensuring essential features like HA, vMotion, Storage vMotion, and DRS were preserved in their new environment.

The result? A modernized, cost-efficient private cloud with greater control and streamlined operations.

Read the full case study:

A global telecommunications enterprise faced rising VMware costs and the risk of vendor lock-in. With 2,800 VMs across 500 hosts in distributed locations, they needed a cost-effective, enterprise-grade alternative that could seamlessly replace VMware while maintaining high availability, automation,....

05/26/2025

Ever wondered how cloud workloads can be optimized automatically without any disruption?

Our latest blog Chris Jones, delves into the intricacies of Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR) within the Private Cloud Director.

Explore how Platform9 Private Cloud Director intelligently and proactively manages VM workload distribution with Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR) — no downtime, no manual intervention.

❇️ DRR continuously monitors CPU and memory usage
❇️ It identifies imbalances across hypervisor hosts
❇️ It triggers live VM migrations only when needed

VMware’s DRS.

If you're into smart cloud infrastructure or want to see autonomous operations in action, this is a must-read.

DRR is Platform9’s intelligent, automated mechanism designed to optimize the distribution of VM workloads across hypervisor hosts within a Private Cloud Director cluster. It continuously monitors key resource utilization metrics, such as CPU and memory usage, across all active hosts within the cluster. When DRR determines that rebalancing would improve the overall health and performance of the cluster, it automatically initiates live migration of VMs to less-utilized hosts without downtime.
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This proactive approach ensures efficient resource utilization, prevents performance bottlenecks, and maintains optimal cluster health.

For a comprehensive understanding of how DRR compares to VMware's DRS and the benefits it brings to your infrastructure, read the full blog here:
Platform9

05/24/2025

Embrace a modern private cloud ⛅ with Platform9.

As organizations look to regain control over costs and performance, the private cloud is evolving — not as a step backward, but as an evolved, cloud-like experience on your own terms.

Our latest blog post explores the core features required for a truly modern private cloud, and why organizations benefit by maintaining a private cloud.

✅ Ease of deployment and management
✅ Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR)
✅ High Availability (HA) and fault tolerance
✅ Live VM migration (with storage)
✅ Software Defined Networking (SDN)
✅ Enterprise-grade security and IAM
✅ Open, extensible architecture

If you’re building a platform for today’s demanding workloads — including AI/ML — this is a must-read.

📖 Full blog here: https://lnkd.in/gUVnTq9n

05/23/2025

Frustrated with VMware’s new licensing model post-Broadcom acquisition? You’re not alone. Many organizations are navigating uncertainty, and we’re here to help. Join us live on May 28 at 9AM PT / 11AM CT as Chris Jones and 👨🏻‍💻Damian Karlson break down what these changes mean for you—and how to move forward confidently.

We’ve helped Fortune 500 companies transition off with minimal downtime, modernizing their virtualization infrastructure to run VMs using Private Cloud Director

We'll cover:
✅ When it makes sense to stay vs. move
✅ How to plan a migration off VMware
✅ Learn about Private Cloud Director as a VMware Alternative

🔍 Ask us anything. We'll be live on Reddit for 2 hours: https://www.reddit.com/r/platform9/comments/1klvpsd/we_are_helping_companies_escape_vmware_licensing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

05/22/2025

Thinking about building your own private cloud — but not sure where to start?

Our latest blog by Pushkar Mulay is the Beginner’s Guide to Private Cloud Director Community Edition — a step-by-step walkthrough designed for cloud builders, home lab tinkerers, and IT teams evaluating private cloud solutions.

Why explore the Community Edition?

🔹 Try out Platform9’s PCD with zero licensing friction

🔹 Perfect for home labs and low-cost test environments

🔹 Hands-on learning with real infrastructure

🔹 No need to rip and replace existing setups

Learn how to deploy the Community Edition on a bare-metal host, onboard a hypervisor, and get your cloud up and running — all with clear steps and hardware tips.

Read full blog here:

Hey everyone! 👋 So, you’re curious about setting up your own little cloud haven? I’ve got you covered with this simple guide to getting started with Private Cloud Director Community Edition. Think of it as your friendly “let’s build something cool together” walkthrough. What’s Communi...