Migrate and modernize VMs with Red Hat
As the virtualization market continues to evolve—with many facing rising costs, licensing uncertainty, and outdated technology—it may be time to reassess your virtualization platforms and strategy. Red Hat helps you address immediate migration needs and longer-term modernization goals on a single, consistent hybrid cloud platform. Start with simplified, cost-controlled virtualization today and progress to a comprehensive platform over time, where VMs and containers coexist across environments, without disruptive overhaul.
Migrate with confidence
Move your VMs to a new platform without disrupting operations. Red Hat® OpenShift® includes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which provides proven virtualization capabilities and the migration toolkit for virtualization to help you migrate your virtual machines with minimal downtime. For a standalone virtualization solution, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine lets you focus on virtualization today, while preserving the option to adopt modern application development and containerization capabilities at your own pace. Work with Red Hat’s integrated virtualization partners to complete your solution in critical areas like storage, networking, and backup and disaster recovery.
Modernize with choice
Modernize on your own terms and with purpose by unifying your virtual machines and containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift. Simplify complex initiatives, including cloud-native administration, scaling to the cloud, and building and modernizing applications with AI. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, balance existing investments with future-ready technologies using a platform that puts you in control of when and how you evolve to drive efficiency and productivity for developers and IT operations teams.
Start planning your virtualization migration
The Virtualization Migration Assessment provides you with a clear roadmap and timeline for migrating your VMs. Work with Red Hat Consulting to analyze your workloads, create a solution design to migrate your VMs efficiently, and determine next steps for timing and pricing.
Why choose Red Hat for virtualization?
Red Hat’s trusted products, partner ecosystem, and open source expertise come together in one solution to help you migrate without disruption and innovate without delay.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, delivers a unified platform for running new and existing virtual machine workloads. It simplifies migration and management by consolidating VMs alongside containers and serverless applications on a single hybrid cloud foundation. For organizations starting with a virtualization-only approach, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine provides a seamless entry point with opportunities to modernize at your own pace without disruption. OpenShift Virtualization lets you manage workloads across environments through one operational model to drive efficiency, alignment, and long-term modernization.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automates the full lifecycle of VMs, helping you accelerate migration to OpenShift, orchestrate day-to-day management, and scale your modernization.
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management monitors the security and performance of your VMs on OpenShift and communicates with Ansible Automation Platform to automate remediation.
Choose what works for you
Red Hat offers additional options to meet your specific needs and environment.
Red Hat Developer Hub for virtualization
Build VMs more easily, scale consistently, and reduce time to provisioning with Red Hat Developer Hub.
Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
Red Hat OpenStack® Services on OpenShift might be the best fit for OpenStack customers looking to modernize VMs and containers with Kubernetes.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® with KVM may work best for those with a small number of virtual machines.
Your future-ready platform starts here
Red Hat OpenShift provides a foundation for integrating AI into existing environments, allowing teams to build, train, and deploy models alongside their current applications and data. With built-in AI-ready infrastructure and support for both VMs and containers, you can modernize incrementally, avoiding costly rewrites or migrations while maximizing the benefit of existing investments and embracing AI at your own pace.
Enhance productivity with Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, the integrated generative AI assistant in your console. Increase innovation through faster answers and simplified hybrid cloud operations. Novices accelerate learning and experienced users boost efficiency, solving complex issues faster. OpenShift Lightspeed lowers the barrier to entry for virtualization administrators by supporting modernization and development tasks as well as easier onboarding that comes directly from official OpenShift documentation, providing the right answers, quickly.
While you modernize your environment, Red Hat OpenShift AI lets you capitalize on the potential to integrate with AI workloads by building, training, and monitoring AI/ML workloads faster with a comprehensive platform.
How to migrate
Interactive walkthrough
Migrate virtual machines with Red Hat
Click through for a high-level overview of Red Hat’s virtualization migration solution, starting in VMware vSphere and ending with the real-time monitoring and management of virtual machines (VMs) on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Start learning
Learning hub
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization learning hub
Learning path
A high-level guide to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a VMware admin
Learning path
Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Interactive walkthrough
Migrate virtual machines with Red Hat
Complete your solution
With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, you can run on your preferred platform and run with implementation and software partners to complete your virtualization solution with storage, networking, and disaster recovery options.
Customer success stories
Hear a conversation with IT leaders from Ford and Emirates NBD as they share their journeys of unifying VMs and containers on a cohesive platform.
Read how SiriusXM collaborated with Red Hat and Pure Storage to create a single application stack that runs across environments to support both VMs and containers without sacrificing performance, disaster recovery, or automation requirements.
Next steps
Build your skills—at a 70% discount
Learn the skills you need to create and manage virtual machines with 70% off the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Training and Certification bundle through December 31, 2025.
Migrate and manage virtual infrastructure
Find out how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization can help you migrate and modernize at your own pace.
