Overview

Platform9's Private Cloud Director is an enterprise private cloud platform that enables IT & DevOps administrator to manage their virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale while leveraging their existing investments in storage and server hardware.

Private Cloud Director is built using an open source KVM hypervisor behind the scenes. It uses a combination of best-of-breed open source technologies for virtualization and container management, along with our unique features to provide a familiar experience to virtualization and container administrators, along with all enterprise capabilities required to build, maintain, and scale private clouds.

Who is this documentation for?

The Private Cloud Director documentation is for administrators, operators and users of Private Cloud Director who are responsible for creating and maintaining virtualized clusters and applications provisioned on them, on behalf of their organization.

This documentation assumes a level of understanding of fundamental infrastructure management technologies such as virtualization, container orchestration, storage, networking etc.

Benefit of Private Cloud Director

Private Cloud Director is a private cloud platform that enables you to manage your VMs and containers side by side. PCD offers following benefits to system administrators:

• Familiar, virtualization first management interface - Private Cloud Director provides a familiar interface for virtualization administrators, where they can find all traditional virtualization features they've relied on.

• All enterprise virtualization features built-in - Private Cloud Director comes built in with all key virtualization features such as VM HA, Clusters enabled with Distributed Resource Rebalancing & Scheduling, VM cloning and snapshotting, VM affinity, anti-affinity, and much more.

• Integrates with all enterprise storage - Private Cloud Director integrates with a wide array of enterprise storage arrays and systems, enabling you to keep your existing storage investments. PCD also integrates with all your existing server hardware, without requiring a change or refresh.

• In-place vSphere cluster conversion with vJailbreak - In addition to Private Cloud Director, Platform9 also offers a free migration tool for VMware users, called vJailbreak. With vJailbreak, you can perform in-place conversion of your vSphere clusters in a rolling manner to convert them to Private Cloud Director cluster, using automation.

Design Principles

Read here to understand the Design Principles that Private Cloud Director has been built with.