Compare Platform9 vs. Rafay

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.

Empower both developers and operations teams with the self-service capabilities and automation they crave, while maintaining an optimal balance of standardization and governance that the organization necessitates. Manage and define configurations centrally using Git for clusters that include security policies and software enhancements like service mesh, ingress controllers, monitoring, logging, and backup and recovery solutions. The management of blueprints and the lifecycle of add-ons can be seamlessly implemented for both new and existing clusters from a central point. Additionally, blueprints can be shared among various teams, ensuring centralized oversight of the add-ons utilized throughout the organization. In dynamic environments that demand rapid development cycles, users can transition from a Git push to an updated application on managed clusters in mere seconds, achieving this over 100 times daily. This approach is especially advantageous for development settings where changes are made with high frequency, thus fostering a more agile workflow. By streamlining these processes, organizations can significantly enhance their operational efficiency and responsiveness.