Managed Kubernetes and private cloud running cloud-native and virtualised workloads on-premises — a proven, cost-effective VMware alternative.
Private Cloud Director (PCD) turns your existing servers and storage into a full-featured private cloud, with no proprietary lock-in and no rip-and-replace. You keep the enterprise capabilities vAdmins expect, including VM high availability, live migration, and dynamic resource rebalancing. When you’re ready to re-platform, vJailbreak, our free, open source migration solution, automates the conversion of entire vSphere clusters, reducing migration risk, cost, and timeline. Private Cloud Director is available through SoftwareOne across APAC.
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, including VM high availability, live migration, and dynamic resource rebalancing, but without the proprietary lock-in.
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vJailbreak migrates your entire VMware environment to Private Cloud Director with minimal downtime. It automates the migration of entire vSphere clusters, reducing risk, costs, and timelines.
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PCD On-Prem is a self-managed control plane in your own data centre.
PCD SaaS is a fully managed control plane with Always-On Assurance. Platform9 hosts and continuously monitors the control plane, backed by a powerful uptime SLA, so you run workloads, not the platform.
PCD Community Edition is free and full-featured for a single control-plane instance, with community support. It is a low-commitment way for a team to evaluate PCD hands-on before making a decision.
PCD isn’t just a hypervisor. It’s a layered platform that gives you a single operating model for VMs and containers. It is virtualisation-first, container-ready, and built to run on existing or new hardware with no forklift upgrades or retooling.
Enterprise-grade virtualisation is the vSphere alternative, with VM high availability, dynamic resource rebalancing, live migration, software-defined networking, and storage.
Infrastructure-as-a-service provides identity, tenants, self-service provisioning, APIs, and multi-region support, the control layer that service providers and platform teams need.
Kubernetes and modern PaaS provide Cluster API, multi-cluster lifecycle management, RBAC, and add-ons, so developers get modern PaaS without central IT having to build shadow platforms.
Three properties hold across all layers. PCD is open-source for strategic flexibility, SaaS-managed for operational leverage, and free of any dependence on proprietary hardware.
SoftwareOne makes Private Cloud Director available across APAC with the ecosystem, self-service provisioning, and multi-tenancy that regional service providers and enterprises need to stand up private cloud at scale. Platform9 and SoftwareOne combine a VMware-class platform with global reach, licencing expertise, and local delivery to help customers exit VMware without disrupting their existing hardware, storage, or tools.
The Platform9 Cloud Service Provider Programme (PCSP) is purpose-built for service providers who lost the ability to sell VMware-based services after Broadcom reduced its authorised partner list. PCSP provides members with a proven private cloud alternative, so they can continue delivering customer environments without rebuilding operations, retraining teams, or replacing hardware.
Join PCSP and get unlimited core consumption for your first 90 days at a flat $1,000/month platform fee, with no commitment and no per-core charges during the promotion. After 90 days, move to transparent pricing at $10.40 per core/month, or work with Platform9 on a custom pricing package. Featuring a SaaS control plane and access to vJailbreak, PCSP members can ensure they have a risk-free, reliable migration path in place. With PCD and vJailbreak, VMs are migrated in a non-destructive process, making rollback easy and ensuring SLAs are maintained.
No. PCD is a hypervisor and management layer for building private clouds on your existing infrastructure, not a public cloud service.
The interface is GUI-based and intentionally familiar, making it very easy to navigate. During a migration for a Fortune 500 customer, a VMware administrator was able to create and manage virtual machines without any formal training.
Yes! PCD runs on standard enterprise servers from major vendors and integrates with leading enterprise storage platforms. It also works with widely used backup, monitoring, and IT operations tools, allowing you to preserve your existing data protection and management stack.
Yes. Choose a self-hosted control plane in your own data centre, including fully air-gapped environments.
vJailbreak uses change block tracking to keep source VMs running until cutover. Downtime is minimal, and migration is non-destructive, so rollback stays easy.
Yes. PCD runs traditional VMs and container-based apps on a single platform, so you can manage both from a single control plane.
