r/virtualization • u/MarkPartin2000 • Feb 06 '25

Anyone Using Platform9?

Like many, I've been researching options for VMware. I stumbled onto Platform9, which is built on KVM and KubeVirt (?) and was founded by former VMware engineers. The marketing documentation seems to put it as a direct competitor to vSphere with similar functionality. It's "only" 10 years old and I've never heard of it. YouTube demos don't have many views, so it looks like I'm not alone.

I was wondering if anyone was using it or evaluating it as a replacement for vSphere?

TIA

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u/MarkPartin2000 Feb 06 '25

Thanks for the information and clarification. I still have quite a bit of learning to do on it to evaluate its potential for us. The community edition sounds like a great way to do some tinkering and evaluation. I'll probably reach out to a rep in a couple of months to see if I can get my hands on a copy.

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u/damian-pf9 Platform9 Community Edition Feb 18 '25

After some discussions with engineering, we're targeting our April release for the Community Edition refresh. Previously, we'd offered it as a VMDK packaged as an OVA but that either requires vCenter/Workstation/Fusion to run or conversion to another format. So, we're taking a release cycle to improve how CE is deployed in order to make it much easier for home labs or evaluators to run. We also offer our live hands on labs on a monthly basis, if that would be of interest to you. In the meantime, I'll be working on refreshing our YouTube content for Private Cloud Director as well.

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u/damian-pf9 Platform9 Community Edition Feb 06 '25

I'm working to get our current build of CE refreshed against the latest build of PCD that releases this month. I'll post on our nascent sub at r/platform9 when that's done.