Compare ManageIQ vs. Platform9

Oversee containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage all from one unified platform. By integrating ManageIQ with your management systems for virtualization, containers, networks, and storage, it can automatically detect inventory, establish mappings of relationships, and monitor any changes. This integration results in a comprehensive, current, and interrelated dataset that underpins our sophisticated management functionalities. You can create resource bundles and make them available in a service catalog for end users to request easily. After provisioning, the entire lifecycle of the service can be managed, encompassing aspects such as policy enforcement, compliance checks, delegated operations, chargeback/showback, and eventual decommissioning. Additionally, you can perform content scans of your virtual machines, hosts, and containers, merging this with auto-discovered information to formulate advanced security and compliance protocols. Notably, this content scanning capability operates without requiring an agent, allowing it to function effectively even for external or non-cooperative virtual machines. This flexibility ensures robust security measures are in place, regardless of the environment.

Platform9 Private Cloud Director turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It provides a fast and efficient method for organizations to migrate away from VMware, with minimal disruption. Enterprise IT teams get a familiar virtualization management experience and a true drop-in replacement for VMware vSphere features, offering all critical enterprise features out of the box: Virtual Machine (VM) High Availability, live migration (vMotion equivalent), Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (VMware DRS equivalent), VM cloning, snapshots, templates, software-defined networking, and secure multi-tenancy. Unlike other solutions that may require proprietary hyperconverged infrastructure or re-platforming to Kubernetes, Private Cloud Director works with existing environments—including servers from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and storage systems from NetApp, Tintri, Pure Storage, and more. Private Cloud Director can be deployed as a fully self-managed solution, a SaaS-managed service, or in air-gapped environments, giving IT teams complete control over their operating model. With Platform9’s free vJailbreak tool, enterprises can perform automated migrations of entire VMware vSphere clusters to Private Cloud Director—including complex VM configurations, multiple datastores, and advanced network policies—at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional approaches. Private Cloud Director supports both VMs and container workloads on a single unified platform, enabling a gradual transition to cloud-native architecture without disrupting current operations. Private Cloud Director can be deployed flexibly as a fully self-managed solution, a SaaS-managed service, or in air-gapped environments.