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Platform9 PCD: An Easy Virtualization Alternative

Platform9 is the primary private cloud alternative for customers looking to migrate their virtualization workloads and build the next generation private cloud.

Private Cloud Director turns the servers and storage you already own into a full-featured private cloud. You get all the enterprise capabilities you expect like VM High Availability, live migration, and Dynamic Resource Rebalancing but without the proprietary hardware. We make migration easy with our automated vJailbreak tooling to ensure a seamless migration of entire vSphere clusters, cutting risk, cost, and years off your project timeline. Platform9 gives you the features you need, the flexibility you demand, and the control to modernize your way.

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Solution Offerings

Private Cloud Director SaaS

Private Cloud Director featuring a fully-managed control plane and “Always On Assurance”. The control plane is hosted in the cloud with continuous monitoring and 99.9% uptime.

Private Cloud Director On-Prem

Private Cloud Director deployed with a self-managed control plane in your data center. This solution is ideal for customers with heavily regulated workloads and air-gapped environments.

Platform9 and Crayon are better together.

Crayon’s ecosystem is a market fit for PCD due to our prowess with self-service and multi-tenancy.

Platform9 Partner Program

Crayon’s ecosystem is a market fit for PCD due to our prowess with self-service and multi-tenancy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you a cloud provider?

No, we are a hypervisor and management layer designed to build simple, elegant private clouds.

Do you have a HCL?

With an API-first policy, PCD’s value is delivering an open framework that leverages your existing 3-tier architecture, not locking you into expensive, proprietary hardware.

Do you have a migration tool?

Yes, vJailbreak, a near live migration tool, which offers automation and the closest non-disruptive path from Broadcom.

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