Migrate Customers Without Downtime
Tenant Isolation Your Customers Can Trust
Everything VMware charged you for.
Included. No extras
One product. One SKU. One price. Built for how Enterprise IT actually operates.
No new hardware. No refactoring.
Runs on existing x86 servers and integrates with NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, HPE, and any Cinder-compatible array via NFS, FC, iSCSI, NVMe, and NVMeoF. Your hardware stays. Your storage stays. Day one.
Predictable licensing. No surprises.
Per-core pricing. One SKU. Your cost maps directly to the infrastructure you own. Model it once, forecast it forever. No bundle shock, no 16-core minimums, no forced upgrades at renewal.
Enterprise-grade security. Built in.
SSO via SAML 2.0, with integrations to Okta, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Backed by SOC 2 Type II certification, a strong validation of our commitment to security and operational excellence. Your data stays private, secure, and in your control.
Enterprise support built for your SLA.
You're running production infrastructure, not a sandbox. Platform9's support is built around enterprise uptime requirements - with a team that's migrated thousands of VMs and knows what production pressure looks like.
200 VMs per day. Zero customer impact.
vJailbreak copies data in the background while source VMs run. Cutover is seconds to minutes. Source VMs are never modified — rollback is power-on. 70% migration time reduction. 50% personnel reduction.
A SaaS management plane that pays for itself.
VCF dedicates 4 licensed management nodes to infrastructure. Those cores aren't billable. With Platform9, the management plane runs in our cloud — every core in your data center remains productive and billable to your business.
Global Fortune 500 Enterprise Migrating 40,000 VMs to Platform9
Global Telecom Migrates 2,800 VMs from VMware to Platform9
Broadcom raised your bill
We raised the bar
Every capability you relied on in VMware. None of the lock-in, surprise costs, or forced upgrades that came with the acquisition.
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| Pricing model How you get billed | Forced bundles. Cost increases of 200–350% reported at renewal. | Per-core. One SKU. Predictable forever. |
| Hardware requirements What you need to run it | Certified hardware lists. Frequent refresh cycles. | Runs on your existing servers, SAN, and NAS. No forklift. |
| Multi-tenancy Isolating business unit environments | Requires Aria Automation. Separate license. Extra cost. | Native. Built in. Enforced quotas per tenant out of the box. |
| Migration path Getting off your current stack | Broadcom owns the migration tooling. You pay for it. | vJailbreak is free, open-source, and non-destructive. Cutover in minutes. |
| Networking (SDN) Virtual network management | NSX required. Separate product. Significant added cost. | Built-in OVS/OVN. Distributed routing, DHCP, microsegmentation included. |
| Management plane Where your control plane runs | vCenter VMs consume your compute. Less capacity to sell. | SaaS-hosted by Platform9.Every core runs your workloads. |
| Identity and SSO Customer authentication | VMware Identity Manager. Separate license required. | SAML 2.0 SSO included. Okta, Entra ID, any IdP. Per-tenant. |
| Support model Who answers when things break | Tiered support. Enterprise tier costs extra. Long escalation paths. | Included in per-core price. Built around enterprise SLAs. |
Built around your stack,
not instead of it
Platform9 works with the storage, backup, and enterprise systems you already run. No rip and replace. No new vendor stack to justify.
Storage
Enterprise Platforms
Native Incremental Backup
"We scaled our private cloud 10x in 3 years—without hiring extra staff—thanks to Platform9’s SaaS and expert day-2 support. In addition, we saved 50% costs over a DIY approach and VM licensing fee."
"Apple made BSD Unix feel approachable through macOS, and Google did something similar with Linux across ChromeOS and Android. What makes Private Cloud Director remarkable is that it has delivered that same 'complexity under the hood' experience for Private Cloud infrastructure, with a deployment experience and time to value that beats anything else in the industry."
Your exit from VMware
Step by step
No big-bang migration. No forced rearchitecture. Just a clear, low-risk path from where you are today to a platform built for how you operate tomorrow.
Powered by Private Cloud Director
Platform9's Private Cloud Director is the single product that replaces vSphere, NSX, Aria Automation, vCenter, and VMware Identity Manager — all under one per-core SKU. It runs on your existing hardware, managed from Platform9's cloud, and handles everything in this migration path from day one.
Learn more about Private Cloud Director →Run vJailbreak. Move customers without downtime.
vJailbreak is Platform9's free, open-source migration tool. In-place host conversion turns your ESXi hosts directly into Private Cloud Director hypervisors — while source VMs keep running.
VMs land on familiar ground. No forced networking changes.
Private Cloud Director Simple Networks let your VMs land with the same VLAN-based connectivity they had in vSphere. Transition to managed SDN on your own schedule — no forced rearchitecture on day one.
Every business unit gets their own hard-isolated environment.
Private Cloud Director delivers native multi-tenancy out of the box — enforced quotas per team, self-service provisioning, delegated ops. No Aria Automation required.
Deploy the way your customers demand.
Private Cloud Director supports SaaS-managed, self-hosted, or fully air-gapped deployments. The management plane runs in Platform9's cloud — so every core in your data center can be revenue generating.
Run it. Scale it. Own the savings.
Private Cloud Director per-core pricing scales linearly with the infrastructure you own. Model it once, forecast it forever — no renewal surprises, no forced upgrades, no bundle shock.
Quick reads
Everything you need to understand the VMware exit landscape — written by the team that's done it thousands of times.
VMware Alternative Cost Comparison: What to Measure
Not all VMware alternatives are priced the same way. Here's how to build an honest cost model -licensing, migration, hardware, and day-2 ops included.
Read More →What to Expect When You're Exiting
A practical walkthrough of the VMware exit process - what to plan for, what to avoid, and how to move production workloads without putting your business at risk.
Read More →Life After VMware: Accelerating VMware Exits with In-Place Migration
In-place migration means your source VMs are never touched, your team doesn't retrain, and cutover happens in minutes, not months.
Read More →A decade of private cloud
Earned, not claimed
Platform9 was founded in 2013 by engineers from VMware. When Broadcom changed the deal, we didn't pivot. We'd been building the alternative for a decade.
Built by VMware
engineers
Our founding team helped build what we're now replacing — so we know exactly what to fix, and how fast to do it.
Open source
at the core
No lock-in. Built on OpenStack, KVM, and open networking standards. Auditable, portable, and entirely yours.
Private cloud
is all we do
No hardware to sell. No public cloud to push. Private Cloud Director is the whole business — which means your success is ours.
The fastest VMware exit
starts with a 30-minute call
No rip & replace. Just your environment specifics
and a migration team that's done this before.