# Overview

## What is PMO

Platform9 Managed OpenStack (PMO) is a **SaaS-Managed OpenStack** offering. PMO deploys, manages, upgrades, and monitors your OpenStack cloud on your private infrastructure, simplifying all aspects of operating a virtualized private cloud by remotely managing all of the day-2 operations.

PMO is deployed using a unique and powerful Software-as-a-Service model, where a **cloud hosted management plane** remotely deploys, manages, monitors and upgrades your OpenStack private cloud environment on your on-premises infrastructure, including your servers, storage, networking. This deployment model enables us to guarantee 24x7x365 SLA for your virtualized environment.

PMO is made up of core OpenStack services including: [Nova](https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/), [Neutron](https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/), [Ironic](https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/), [Glance](https://docs.openstack.org/glance/latest/), [Cinder](https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/), [Heat](https://docs.openstack.org/heat/latest/), [Ceilometer](https://docs.openstack.org/ceilometer/latest/), and [Keystone](https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/), building the foundation to run your business.

As a cloud administrator or a self-service user, you can set up and interact with various components of PMO through the Clarity SaaS portal, with zero knowledge of OpenStack, or OpenStack CLI commands. With a few simple clicks, your Platform9 dashboard starts offering visibility into your infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads — and your OpenStack cloud is live. And as a Platform9 cloud administrator, you can configure and manage OpenStack resources that are to be used by self-service users, with Clarity.

## Benefits of PMO

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## Who is this documentation for?

The PMO documentation is for **administrators and operators** of PMO who are responsible for creating and maintaining virtualized infrastructure and associated networking and storage components for their organization. This is not intended to be general purpose OpenStack documentation. Refer [**here**](https://docs.openstack.org/) for official OpenStack documentation.

## Getting started

Getting started with PMO is very easy. Refer to [auto$](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/getting-started-getting-started-guide/README.md) to understand how to get started.

## Understand the Architecture

Refer to [auto$](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/introduction-architecture/README.md) for an in-depth understanding of how PMO works.

## Release Highlights

See updates on what was added to latest PMO releases [here](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/release-notes/README.md)**.**

Review the matrix of supported OpenStack services and their version info in the [Support Matrix](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/support-matrix/README.md).

## Troubleshooting

Refer to [PMO troubleshooting](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/troubleshooting-troubleshooting-guide/README.md) for more info.

## Tutorials

PMO tutorials provide recipes for commonly performed tasks on PMO. Refer to [PMO tutorials](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/openstack/tutorials-centos-vm-image-rhvmm/README.md) for more info.