Virtualization
Migrate with confidence.
Modernize with control.
Virtualization has quietly powered your IT—until now. Stay on track, minimize budget implications, and deliver innovation faster with open source virtualization solutions tailored to your needs.
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Modernizing e-commerce with Red Hat OpenShift
sahibinden.com migrated its existing virtual machines (VMs) into container workflows with Red Hat® OpenShift®, improving developer productivity and time to market.
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Red Hat technology stands out from the competition in its ability to run integrated, streamlined virtual and container workloads. Those capabilities help us build and deliver valuable software faster.
Gӧkhan Ergül CTO, sahibinden.comMigrate VMs without disruption
Migrating your VMs to a modern platform shouldn’t interrupt your workflows. It should strengthen them. Preserve your investments and enhance your capabilities with our virtualization solutions trusted to work reliably and flexibly. Backed by comprehensive tooling and partner integrations, our open source foundation ensures continuity and ingenuity—whether you’re modernizing legacy apps or building new ones.
Modernize seamlessly, at your own pace
Gaining a competitive edge often requires cutting-edge technologies. Maintaining it requires control over how you use them. With our virtualization solutions, you can modernize VM-based apps and the infrastructure that manages them all in one place, in your own way. Our platform provides a unified environment for VMs, containers, and serverless apps—all while maintaining operational consistency and control across any environment.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers an array of ‘Alt-V’ paths
This S&P Global Market Intelligence report discusses Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as an alternative to VMware—and details recommendations for customers interested in migrating virtual machines to a new platform.
Assess your virtualization migration needs
Make a plan to migrate your VMs off your traditional virtualization provider with Red Hat Consulting.
Why choose our virtualization solutions?
The backbone of enterprise-grade virtualization, the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) is trusted for its ability to create efficiency at scale. That’s why it's the sole hypervisor across our entire virtualization portfolio, and already included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. We even continually improve the kernel code with contributions to the KVM community.
Efficiency depends on ease and speed, too. Our virtualization solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack®, help organizations seamlessly manage VMs alongside containers and serverless workloads on a unified Kubernetes platform, creating consistency between traditional and cloud-native infrastructures.
Straightforward migration.
Lasting modernization.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization lets you run containers and VMs side by side. Migrate quickly, modernize at your own pace, and manage all of your apps consistently on a single, trusted application platform.
Curate your virtualization solution
With Red Hat’s partner ecosystem, you can extend the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Explore partner offerings for storage and networking, backup and disaster recovery, and hardware infrastructure.
Choose your features
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Simplify your VM migration (overview)
Explore the support and technical services available to ease your migration from beginning to end.
How to use Red Hat OpenShift as a modern application platform (e-book)
Bring together tools and partners to simplify and accelerate modern app development.
University of Gothenburg adopts OpenShift to run containers and VMs side by side (case study)
University of Gothenburg improved time to production by running containers and VMs on one platform.