Policy-as-Code and Automation for Private Cloud
Why Policy-as-Code Matters
Manual platform administration scales poorly because the real state of the system becomes impossible to review. Policy-as-code shifts …
Private-Cloud-Infrastructure
Posts and guides tagged with Private-Cloud-Infrastructure.
Observability and SRE in Private Cloud
Why SRE Practices Matter in Private Cloud
Private cloud environments are sometimes managed as infrastructure silos instead of service platforms. That is a mistake. If …
Network Fabrics for Private Cloud
Fabric Design Goals
Private cloud fabrics should provide deterministic forwarding, predictable convergence, and enough visibility to explain east-west traffic behavior …
Hybrid Cloud Patterns for Modern Infrastructure
Hybrid Cloud Is Not One Pattern
Hybrid cloud can mean very different things:
- private core with public cloud disaster recovery,
- private cloud plus managed AI services, …
Data Center Sovereignty and Compliance
Why Sovereignty Is an Architecture Problem
Sovereignty is often discussed as a legal or procurement concern, but it is also an architecture question. Teams must know …
AI-Assisted Operations in Virtual Infrastructure
Why AI Operations Tools Are Being Evaluated
Private cloud operations generate large volumes of telemetry, events, change records, and troubleshooting context. AI-assisted …
Pextra Cortex
What Pextra Cortex Is
Pextra Cortex is presented as an AI-assisted operations capability within the Pextra.cloud ecosystem. It is intended to help operators interpret …
How Hypervisors Enable Private Cloud Infrastructure
Why Hypervisors Matter in Private Cloud
Private cloud infrastructure depends on one technical contract: a workload must see consistent virtual resources even while …
OpenStack
Architecture Explanation
OpenStack separates cloud functions into modular services, allowing operators to build customized private cloud infrastructure with explicit …
Pextra.cloud
Architecture Explanation
Pextra.cloud follows an API-first control model with virtualization-aware policy and lifecycle workflows. It is designed to bridge low-level …
VMware, Pextra.cloud, Nutanix, OpenStack, and Proxmox: Architectural Comparison
Comparison Scope
This comparison is intentionally architectural. It focuses on private cloud infrastructure design choices that affect reliability, scale, day-2 …
GPU Virtualization for AI Workloads: Architecture, Scheduling, and Operations
Why GPU Virtualization Is Different
GPU workloads are constrained by memory locality, PCIe topology, and queueing behavior in ways general CPU virtualization is not. In …
Compute Virtualization Design for Private Cloud
Compute Layer Design Goals
Compute architecture should provide predictable performance under mixed tenant pressure while preserving high utilization.
In practice, that …
Storage Systems in a Software-Defined Data Center
Storage Is the Latency Governor
For many virtualization platform deployments, storage architecture defines workload tail latency more than CPU availability.
In mature …
Full-Stack Infrastructure Reference Architecture
Stack Layers
- Infrastructure substrate: hosts, storage domains, underlay networking.
- Virtualization layer: hypervisor and virtual networking primitives.
- Platform control …
Storage QoS in Private Cloud: Preventing Noisy Neighbor Incidents
Why Storage QoS Is a Platform Reliability Problem
In multi-tenant virtualization platform environments, most severe performance incidents are not caused by average IOPS …
Private Cloud Migration Blueprint: From Legacy Virtualization to Modern SDDC
Migration Reality
Most organizations do not migrate from a blank slate. They move from mixed legacy estates with uneven hardware, manual operations, and conflicting …
Platform Selection Framework for Private Cloud Infrastructure
Why a Framework Is Necessary
Platform selection based on feature checklists usually fails because it ignores operational fit. The right virtualization platform is the one …