Enterprises Migrating Thousands of VMware VMs to Platform9’s Private Cloud

Platform9 announced that enterprises are migrating 10,000s of VMware VMs to the company’s private cloud using its vJailbreak open source product.

Industry analysts estimate large-scale VMware migrations will take 18-48 months to complete, with costs ranging from $300 to $3,000 per VM. With Platform9, migrations can happen in weeks to months and at one-tenth of the cost.

“A Fortune 500 enterprise has contracted with Platform9 to migrate 40,000 VMs at $35 per VM to Platform’s Private Cloud Director and this customer will be migrating more than 200 VMs per day using vJailbreak by next month. This customer evaluated multiple alternatives, including Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox and Red Hat, and chose Private Cloud Director because it is the only solution that that provided all the enterprise-ready virtualization features they needed while integrating seamlessly with their existing third-party storage,” said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and VP, product, Platform9.

Maskasky helped develop VMware vCloud Director, VMware’s original private cloud offering used by the world’s largest enterprises that is now a precursor to Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation.

“Platform9 is unique because of the flexibility it provides by offering a best-of-breed virtualization platform, automated VM migration tooling and built-in Kubernetes management capabilities that enable our longer term vision of cloud-native apps,” said Justin Kuss, VP, IT, Rackspace Technology, who is modernizing a VMware based environment.

vJailbreak is a solution that orchestrates all the aspects of migration – reducing risk and manual labor and increasing customer confidence.

Key features include:

Delightful, modern UX focused on migration from VMware with point and click simplicity.
Scalable architecture that can span to multiple migration agents to migrate 100s of VMs concurrently.
Discovery of VMs and their associated metadata, storage and network configuration and easily porting those across.
Live migration of VMs using change-block-tracking; with only a few minutes of downtime required to turn off the original and power on the newly migrated copy.
Automation for common migration pain points, such as dynamic volumes, uninstalling and handling VMware tools, IP addresses, MAC addresses, secondary disks and system identifiers.
Planned support for raw device mappings and clustered VMs.
Planned support for in-place rolling migration of an entire VMware cluster, into a KVM based cluster.

Platform9 launched Private Cloud Director last quarter to give enterprises the simplest private cloud experience with all of the critical enterprise features of VMware: VM High Availability, Cluster Rebalancing, VM Live Migration, Distributed Virtual Switches, Software Defined Networking and interoperability with all existing hardware investments including 3rd party storage.

Resources:
Blog: 7 reasons Private Cloud Director is the future-proof VMware alternative
Blog: Why Platform9 Private Cloud Director is the complete VMware alternative