Technical details and requirements for lab participation

This hands-on lab is designed for VMware administrators who are considering an alternative hypervisor (KVM) and virtualization management solution. Engineers from Platform9 many of whom worked at VMware or have extensive experience using VMware will be running these labs using Platform9 Private Cloud Director (PCD). PCD is a production-ready, enterprise-grade virtualization solution that is designed to be easy to use and manage for VMware admins.

Our goal is to have one engineer for every three participants to ensure we can provide a high level of interactivity and guidance during the sessions.

Platform9 will provide the hardware for the lab. However, please ensure that your networks allow outbound SSH connectivity.

There is no cost to participate in the lab. The entire session will be conducted via Zoom. We will send you instructions on how to join Zoom once you register.

Introducing vJailbreak

vJailbreak is a new free tool from Platform9 that discovers your current VMware environment and migrates your VMs, data, and network configurations to Private Cloud Director. See this tool in action on Day 2 where we showcase live migration of your running VMs (with change block tracking and minimum downtime) or offline VMs, with an easy-to-use user interface as well as a powerful underlying API.