The Ideal Strategy For Migrating Away From VMware
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Say Goodbye to Rigidity, Increasing Costs, and Outdated Roadmaps
For too long, you’ve been trapped within proprietary VMware stacks. The recent Broadcom shifts have turned stability into stagnation, forcing IT leaders to confront unsustainable IT operations.
Platform9 + Tintri: The 'Better Together' Solution
It’s time for a proven, automated, and low-risk pathway to a modern, private cloud.
The combined strength of Platform9 Private Cloud Director running on Tintri VMstore offers the only integrated solution designed to maximize your existing investment while delivering true operational freedom and guaranteed performance.
Why This Partnership Wins
Seamless Escape and Familiarity – Powered by Platform9
Platform9 Private Cloud Director is a comprehensive, enterprise-grade alternative built by former VMware engineers. It doesn’t just replace; it significantly upgrades your VM and Container game.
Guaranteed Performance and Simplicity – Powered by Tintri
Tintri VMstore is the only storage platform built from the ground up to speak the language of virtualization and containers.
Learn more about Platform9 + Tintri:
Built-in Cyber Resilience Advantage
When running Platform9 on Tintri VMstore, you gain an integrated, Workload-aware data protection solution that neutralizes the threat of ransomware and eliminates downtime. No third party tools to purchase or integrate.
- Ransomware-Proof Snapshots: VMstore features locking, immutable snapshots that can’t be altered or deleted. Your critical recovery points are secure against malicious attacks or accidental deletion.
- Space-Efficient Architecture: Tintri uses space-efficient native snapshots and replicates only unique deduplicated data blocks, reducing your capacity requirements by up to 10x.
- One-Click Recovery: Simplified single-click Workload and Application recovery. You can achieve Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) as little as one minute and rapidly restore files from snapshots.
Customer Success Spotlight:
40,000 Reasons to Switch
“We’ve looked at every solution on the market, and Platform9 is the only solution that meets all of our requirements.”
A Fortune 500 global enterprise operating in industrial automation, energy, and transportation, faced unsustainable cost hikes under Broadcom’s new proprietary VMware licensing model. They needed a viable, cost-effective alternative to manage their massive global footprint of four large data centers and 90+ regional sites.
The Challenge: Migrate over 40,000 VMs and thousands of servers away from VMware without disrupting business-critical operations, while maximizing their investment in their existing infrastructure.
The Solution: The enterprise chose Platform9 Private Cloud Director running on their existing Tintri VMstore infrastructure.
The Outcome:
- Unprecedented Scale: Successfully migrating 40,000 VMs using the automated vJailbreak tool.
- Operational Freedom: Achieved a drop-in replacement for critical VMware features like DRS and vMotion.
- Simplicity: One of their VMware administrators, with zero training, was immediately able to create and manage VMs on Private Cloud Director.
Experience Simplicity, Acceleration, and Security by moving to Platform9 + Tintri
Stop paying the Broadcom tax and start investing in accelerating innovation. The combined strengths of automated migration, smart infrastructure, and a SaaS-managed private cloud delivers the only proven path to enterprise agility and operational freedom.
Contact us today for a personalized TCO analysis and a free demo of the vJailbreak migration tool.
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