Migrate VMs with Red Hat
You likely haven’t thought too much about your virtualization solution—until recently. But as rising virtualization costs take budget away from innovation, it’s time to migrate your virtual machines (VMs) and set a path to modernization. Red Hat has solutions and partners to help you migrate without disruption—to a platform that’s built for your future goals.
Today’s virtualization challenges
Rising costs
The costs to manage your virtualization infrastructure are rising—along with the pressure to innovate. Budget allocated for increasing virtualization costs can be better spent on migrating to a platform with a future, a platform that can lead to innovations like AI and cloud-native development.
Outdated technology
Long deployment times and a lack of developer tools can get in the way of scaling and modernizing virtualized applications. You need a platform that promotes modern development practices, automation, and scalable management for all of your applications.
Tech sprawl
Managing multiple platforms across on-premise and cloud environments introduces sprawl, complexity, and inconsistencies. Instead of migrating VMs to one environment while running containers in another, migrate and manage VMs and containers within a consistent platform for developers and platform engineers.
Migrate now
Move your VMs to a new platform without disrupting operations. Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization includes a simple way to migrate your virtual machines from other hypervisors with the migration toolkit for virtualization. We can help you evaluate the health of your virtual machines, identify critical workloads, and make a plan to migrate them live.
Automate the migration process and Day 2 operations at scale with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes can help you streamline maintenance of the entire VM lifecycle from a single console that tracks and reports issues. Set policies to make sure your VMs meet performance and compliance requirements, and rely on Red Hat’s integrated virtualization partners to complete your solution in critical areas like storage, networking, and backup and disaster recovery.
Modernize later
Get the most out of your migration by building a path to modernization. Red Hat provides not just a replacement hypervisor, but a complete application platform to help you create, scale, and refactor virtualized applications for future investments in AI and cloud-native development. Modernize at your own pace with Red Hat OpenShift as the comprehensive foundation.
Virtualization Migration Assessment
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 VMs now—and modernize when you’re ready.
Red Hat OpenShift is a modern app platform where you can run and deploy new and existing VMs. It includes the migration toolkit for virtualization and provides all the tools you need to migrate VMs and manage them with ease from a single console.
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 for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes monitors the security and performance of your VMs on OpenShift and communicates with Ansible Automation Platform to automate remediation.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, allows for straightforward migration and management of traditional virtual machines on a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform. It’s available for self-managed Red Hat OpenShift on-premise and on AWS, and on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) for bare metal instances.
Choose what works for you
Red Hat offers additional options to meet your specific needs and environment.
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.
Complete your solution
Storage
Backup and disaster recovery
Networking
Solution pattern
See how it works together
Isolate early for migration risks
It’s important to understand your virtual estate prior to migration. Before you begin, assess your VM instances to reduce legacy dependencies and hidden costs. From a single management console, plan and define migration timelines to move workloads programmatically. Apply customizable templates to existing workflows for a simplified migration experience, and maintain high availability from centralized, custom dashboards that efficiently manage VM metrics and data flows.
Automate migration at scale
Standardize VM lifecycle management to improve your migration’s efficiency. Orchestrate live migrations in batches for faster time to value, and implement pre- and post-flight guardrails to migrate at scale. Capture VM snapshots and backups to automatically rollback failed migrations to a safe state and reduce unplanned downtimes.
Safeguard business continuity
Continuously monitor the health and performance of your VMs. Combine event-driven automation with observability and IT service management (ITSM) tools to proactively find and fix issues. Auto-generate, manage and enforce prebuilt policy sets as-code for tighter CI/CD alignment, using automation playbooks for policy-driven governance, risk management, and compliance.
Set a path to modernize
Modernize at your own pace with Red Hat OpenShift® as the comprehensive foundation. Reduce complexity with OpenShift Virtualization, a self-managed operator that lets you run traditional VMs alongside containers. From there, you can introduce DevOps practices, explore AI capabilities, and prepare for investments in cloud-native development.
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Customer success stories
sahibinden.com modernizes e-commerce platform
Learn how sahibinden.com migrated its VMs into container workflows, decreasing system reliability incidents by 97% and improving developer productivity.
Türk Telekom builds modern IT infrastructure
Discover how Türk Telekom used OpenShift Virtualization to run its VMs inside containers, helping to standardize and modernize its infrastructure and speed delivery.
Next steps
Build your skills—at a 70% discount
Get 70% off the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Training and Certification bundle through December 31, 2024.
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