Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

What is Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization?

Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization helps organizations migrate, run, and manage traditional virtual machines (VMs) alongside modern workloads on a unified, hybrid cloud application platform.

As an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization lets you respond to change with confidence, keep critical VMs running reliably, and move forward on a single foundation that supports innovation, growth, and emerging requirements such as AI. With OpenShift Virtualization, you can:

Migrate and run VMs with cloud-native benefits.
Manage VMs alongside containers and serverless workloads with a unified set of tools.
Modernize your workloads at your own pace by adopting containers, implementing microservices, or integrating AI, without disrupting your traditional VMs.

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Here’s what analysts have to say about Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

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A Proven Modern Virtualization Technical Stack

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Find out how Emirates NBD migrated 9,000 virtual machines across multiple datacenters in 6 months.

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Find out how One NZ cut deployment times by 40% and reduced major platform upgrade windows from months to weeks or days.

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Find out how NC State University created better collaboration with a more consistent platform across development, test, and production.

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Find out how Motorola deployed cloud-native public safety applications across multicloud and bare metal environments.

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[OpenShift Virtualization] streamlines the process of integrating traditional and modern workloads, and gives us a consistent management layer.

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Engineering Technologist, Dell Technologies

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What Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers you

Built on the trusted open source KVM hypervisor, OpenShift Virtualization is an operator included with any Red Hat OpenShift edition. Access a platform for your evolving virtualization needs that offers:

Simplified VM migrations. Move your VMs with confidence and control using included migration services and access to the certified partner ecosystem.
Practical paths towards modernization. Access operational consistency for your VMs through CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, service mesh, and more, while exploring modernization paths like containerization at your own pace.
Innovation opportunity. Explore a modern, flexible platform that is prepared to handle emerging workloads, such as AI, and supports continued growth.

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See it in action

Explore an interactive demo demonstrating how to migrate virtual machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Migrate with confidence. Modernize with choice.

Together with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat’s trusted software solutions help you seamlessly automate, migrate, and manage your virtual infrastructure.

Automate your VM investments at scale

Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform allows you to automate the full end-to-end lifecycle of your VMs.

Access a cost-effective VM-only solution

To migrate, deploy, and manage VMs only, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a streamlined, cost-efficient solution just for virtual workloads.

Simplify VM and container operations

Maintain the health and performance of your entire fleet of VMs and containers and across clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.

Maintain consistent policy guardrails

Enforce security policies, compliance, and governance for virtual machines and containers from a single console with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes.

Complete your solution

Achieve your ideal virtualization end state with partner solutions for storage, backup and disaster recovery, networking, implementation, cloud services, and compute hardware. Work with leading cloud providers to deliver a consistent experience at scale, and better manage your costs by taking advantage of cloud consumption programs.