Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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Overview

Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, provides a modern platform for organizations to run and deploy their new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads. The solution allows for easy migration and management of traditional virtual machines onto a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform.

OpenShift Virtualization simplifies the migration of your VMs while offering a path for infrastructure modernization, taking advantage of the simplicity and speed of a cloud-native application platform. It aims to preserve existing virtualization investments while embracing modern management principles, and it’s the foundation for Red Hat’s comprehensive virtualization solution.

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What are the benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization?

Easy migration

Migrate VMs from other hypervisors with the included migration toolkit for virtualization. You can even migrate VMs to the cloud. For hands-on support with your migration, Red Hat Services provides mentor-based consulting along the way, including the Virtualization Migration Assessment.

A path to infrastructure modernization

Apply Red Hat OpenShift’s modern application development processes and tools to your virtual workloads to expedite the modernization of VM-based applications and prepare for future investments in cloud-native development and artificial intelligence (AI).

Centralized management

Simplify operations with a single platform for VMs, containers, and serverless workloads. As a result, you can standardize infrastructure deployment and maintain all workloads using a common, consistent set of established, enterprise tools.

Faster time to production

Streamline infrastructure and application delivery with a platform that supports self-service options and integrations with CI/CD pipelines. With OpenShift Virtualization, developers can build, test, and deploy workloads faster, accelerating time to market.

How does virtualization work with Red Hat OpenShift?

OpenShift Virtualization is an operator included with any Red Hat OpenShift edition. It enables infrastructure architects to create and add virtualized applications to their projects from OperatorHub in the same way they would for a containerized application.

Existing virtual machines can be migrated from other platforms onto Red Hat OpenShift through the use of included, intuitive migration tools. Curious to see how OpenShift Virtualization can help accelerate migration and prepare your VMs for a cloud-native future? Learn from Red Hat experts and get hands-on experience with virtualization tasks at the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Roadshow

Focus exclusively on virtual machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine

Get the proven virtualization functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to deploy, manage, and scale VMs. Only pay for what you need with a streamlined solution dedicated exclusively to virtualization.

OpenShift Virtualization adds new objects to your Red Hat OpenShift cluster via custom resources to enable virtualization tasks. These tasks include:

Creating and managing Linux® and Windows VMs.
Connecting to VMs through UI and CLI tools.
Importing and cloning existing VMs, including VMware, vSphere, and Red Hat Virtualization VMs.
Managing network interface controllers and storage disks attached to VMs.
Live migrating VMs between nodes.

Migrate with confidence. Modernize with control.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, alongside Red Hat’s trusted products and partner ecosystem, is part of a comprehensive solution to help you migrate and run virtual machines now and modernize when you’re ready. Together with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, you can seamlessly automate, migrate, and manage your virtual infrastructure.

Safeguard existing VM investments

Red Hat OpenShift is a consistent and efficient platform for both traditional and next-generation applications. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization includes the tools you need to migrate quickly, and when used with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, allows you to automate your migration at scale. To migrate, deploy and manage VMs only, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a streamlined, cost-efficient solution just for virtual workloads.

Create a path to modernization

Red Hat OpenShift brings modern application development processes and tools to VMs to expedite the modernization of existing applications. Take advantage of management efficiencies by monitoring the health and performance of VMs and containers side by side and across clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.

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Deploy with partners

The Red Hat partner ecosystem unlocks the transformative capabilities of OpenShift Virtualization so you can have the modern application platform you need to meet your organization’s virtualization needs today and into the future.

Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift offers a security-focused, unified platform to deploy and manage VMs, apps and data across the hybrid cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) simplifies infrastructure and app management by helping customers integrate traditional VMs into a modern, cloud-native environment.

Complete your solution

Red Hat’s partner ecosystem helps you complete your virtualization solution with integrated services and products in key areas. You can continue working with the tools and features you know—while protecting the Red Hat OpenShift investments you’ve already made.

Storage

Run, scale, and help protect your virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift with the integration of storage software partners. These partners offer consistent integration with Red Hat OpenShift to provide application storage and resilience. Storage partners include:

Backup and disaster recovery

Protect virtual machine workloads and maintain uptime during unexpected events so that critical information can be restored and customer operations are not interrupted. Backup and disaster recovery partners include:

Networking

Rely on a high-performance, scalable networking solution that creates segmentation and manages different security levels in your infrastructure with efficient, centralized management. Networking partners include:

Services

Achieve your virtualization goals with Red Hat’s services partners. Global and regional service integrators can help assess your virtual infrastructure and create a roadmap for fast migration or full-scale modernization, depending on your business needs. Services partners include: