Platform9 announced that enterprises are
migrating tens of thousands of VMware virtual machines (VMs) to Platform9’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 of product at 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 of IT at Rackspace, who is modernizing a VMware
based environment.
vJailbreak is the only 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 third party storage.
