Transition from VMware

If you’re considering transitioning from VMware to an alternative virtualization stack, the Private Cloud Director is an excellent choice. Platform9's Private Cloud Director offers features similar to those you’ve relied on in VMware for years.

To help you get started, here’s a simple glossary mapping familiar VMware features to their counterparts in the Private Cloud Director environment.

Your favorite VMware feature	Equivalent in PCD
VMware vSphere Clusters	In PCD, clusters and host aggregates serve a similar purpose to vSphere clusters.
VMware vCenter Server	In PCD, the control plane manages infrastructure resources, similar to how vCenter orchestrates VMware environments.
VMware ESXi Host	PCD uses KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as the underlying hypervisor instead of ESXi.
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)	PCD Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (DRR) manages the distribution of workloads & resource consumption across hosts.
VMware CPU and Memory over-commitment ratios	Private Cloud Director supports over-commitment ratio specification for CPU and Memory at a host or a host aggregate level.
VMware High Availability (HA)	PCD HA (2/4 nodes cluster) supports continuous availability of services.
VMware vMotion	PCD supports Live Migration to move instances across hosts without downtime.
VMware Storage vMotion	Private Cloud Director Storage Live Migration / Volume Retyping
VMware Virtual or Distributed Switch (vSwitch / DVSwitch)	PCD uses Open vSwitch or similar SDN technologies to provide Distributed Virtual Switch equivalent capabilities.
VMware Template	In PCD, templates are referred to as Images, which are used to create new virtual machines.
VMware Snapshot	PCD support VM Snapshots for capturing the current state of a VM.
VMware NSX (Networking and Security)	PCD provides Networking Service that offers full Software Defined Networking capabilities, including managing physical or virtual networks, routers, IP management, micro-segmentation, security policies, LBaaS, DNSaaS and more
VMware Datacenter	PCD Regions, Domains, Tenants, and much more
VMware VMFS Datastore	PCD direct mount storage w/ storage LUNs (no shared file system) or with NFS backend
VMware vVol	PCD Volumes, Volume Types, Volume Snapshots
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) Format	PCD uses the QCOW2 file format for virtual machine disk images.
vCenter Storage Policies	PCD Storage Types and Storage Groups
vApps and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)	PCD utilizes Heat orchestration templates & Terraform to automate composite cloud application deployment.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)	PCD supports disaster recovery through integration with partners like Hystax.
VMware Resource Allocation (CPU/Memory)	PCD uses flavors to define VM configurations, including CPU and memory allocations.
VMware Content Library	PCD uses Image Library Service for VM templates and snapshots.