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Platform9 Managed OpenStack for VMware
AT A GLANCE
Solution Overview
Platform9 is the simplest way for an
organization to build an Enterprise-grade
OpenStack Private Cloud using existing
VMware vSphere infrastructure—with very
low operational overhead.
Platform9 provides on-demand access and
automated management for dev and test
workloads; enabling higher SLAs for end
users and eliminating repetitive provisioning
tasks for IT.
BENEFITS
• Agility: Eliminate time-consuming
provisioning operations for IT by enabling
self-service.
• Efficiency: Optimize utilization of existing
VMware infrastructure across teams and
users.
• Low Cost: Instantly repurpose existing
VMware infrastructure to power your
private cloud within minutes.
• Flexibility: Power your cloud with VMware,
KVM and soon Docker. Your cloud can
leverage any virtualization platform.
• Compatibility: Seamless integration with
VMware vSphere.
Target Audience
• IT and DevOps leaders looking to transform their
existing VMware environment into an Amazon-like
agile, self-service private cloud as a way to empower
their users.
• Organizations looking for a private alternative to
AWS.
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Requirements for VMware
Environment
Platform9 Managed OpenStack integrates with your
existing VMware vSphere environment with zero
modifications required. All that you need is:
• A VMware vCenter environment.
• One or more VMware vCenter clusters.
• Standard datastores and vSwitch based networking.
• Outbound HTTPS access from your data center to your
Platform9 management server.
Supported Distributions
Platform9 Managed OpenStack currently supports the
following VMware distributions:
• VMware vSphere version 5.0
• VMware vSphere version 5.1
• VMware vSphere version 5.5
Don’t see support for your environment? Send us a note to:
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Feature Summary
For Administrators
Infrastructure Pooling and
Resource Tiering
Pool together VMware hypervisors, data stores and
networks into one logical pool, then organize them into
multiple ‘virtual clusters’
• Multi-data center support: Pool together resources
across data centers and associate tags to distinguish
different locations.
• Resource Tiering: Use simple key-value pair tags to
create ‘virtual clusters’ of resources and assign to
different users.
• Policy-based rapid provisioning: Create virtual
machines in seconds while Platform9 optimizes for
resource utilization, application performance and
admin policies.
• Snapshotting: Snapshot existing virtual machines to
publish an image to the catalog.
Infrastructure Monitoring
• Visibility: Gain instantaneous visibility into capacity,
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usage, allocation across compute, storage and
network, across geographies.
Alerts: Configure alerts based on key resource
metrics.
Capacity planning: Monitor and manage resource
utilization across your data centers. Setup
appropriate oversubscription factors to gain heavy
utilization.
Multi-Tenancy
Onboard multiple teams and users and enforce policybased access control and resource consumption.
• Quota based allocation: Allocate different pools of
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capacity to different tenants.
Role based access: Enable role based access for
users.
Simple Setup
• Set up in minutes: No complex management
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software to install, configure and upgrade.
Built-in monitoring: Platform9 engineers are often
the first to know of a problem in a customer
environment.
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Discovery and Integration
• Existing infrastructure and workloads are seamlessly
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imported.
Platform9 interoperates with existing tools. Users
are free to continue using their existing management
tools.
Image Catalog
Maintain a central repository of virtual machine images
that can be deployed and shared with different users.
• Public catalog: Download images for popular open
source operating system distributions.
• Existing images: Import local images directly, or via
URL.
• Linked clones: Reduce storage footprint by deduplicating data across virtual machines created
from the same image.
For Users
Self Service Portal
Get on-demand access to shared infrastructure.
• Rapid provisioning: Create and deploy virtual
machines instantaneously.
• Web-based access: Access your virtual machines
from anywhere using the web interface.
• Collaboration: Capture and share virtual machine
configurations easily both within and across teams.
Developer Libraries
Integrate with off-the-shelf OpenStack tools and
libraries:
• Scripting libraries such as libcloud, jcloud.
• Automation tools such as knife, chef, puppet, salt,
ansible and vagrant.
• Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
REST APIs and CLIs
Automate and script using APIs and CLIs.
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