Virtualization Reimagined
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Designing & provisioning a container based architecture with the help of Red Hat Consulting
sahibinden.com is one of the largest electronic commerce and classified platforms in Turkey. To maintain its market-leading position against competition from start-ups and global retailers, Turkish classified listing and e-commerce platform sahibinden.com decided to modernize its IT infrastructure and work approaches.
Red Hat technology stands out from the competition because it runs virtualized & s container workloads in a streamlined, well-integrated manner, allowing us to deliver value to users more quickly, minimizing time to market and accelerating the software development life cycle. Red Hat Consulting played a crucial role in our success by working alongside our team to gain hands-on experience and build skills with on-the-job training,
Where are you?
Migrating to OpenShift Virtualization allows you to modernise your infrastructure and applications at your own pace, connect and centralize your environments, and retire your legacy systems faster.
The result? Reduced infrastructure costs, increased efficiency, and accelerated innovation.
But moving your modernized virtualisation journey forward can be easier said than done.
Take this quick quiz and let us give you some helpful advice.
Ready to migrate already?
The Virtualization Migration Assessment is an experience-driven framework that helps you understand, plan, and create a strategic path forward for virtual machine (VM) infrastructure migrations. This engagement, offered by Red Hat Consulting, provides you with a clear roadmap and timeline for migrating your VMs off your traditional virtualization provider.
Experienced Red Hat Architects will work with your team to understand and analyze both the infrastructure and workload complexities to build a robust migration plan.
- Create a strategic plan for your VM infrastructure migration.
- Accelerate innovation across defined milestones.
- Strategize how to realize value during the pilot and factory migration of VMs onto your Red Hat platform.
Next step?
Equip your team for success
When you train with Red Hat, you’re learning from the source — the creators of industry-leading open-source technologies. Our expert instructors, hands-on labs, and globally recognized certifications give you the skills to innovate, excel, and drive real business impact.
Whether you’re an individual looking to advance your career or a company scaling your team's capabilities, Red Hat’s flexible training solutions empower you to master the tools that power modern IT.
Stage 1: Taste of learning
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Technical Overview
Join Andrew Sullivan, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing, for a Technical Overview of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Throughout the series of on-demand videos, learners will gain practical knowledge on creating virtual machines, managing them, configuring networking, ensuring high availability, and efficiently migrating existing virtual machines into OpenShift Virtualization.
Course Content Summary
- Technical Overview Introduction
- Virtual machine creation and management
- Host and VM networking
- Virtual machine storage
- High availability and bare metal management
- Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
- Next steps to continue training
Audience for this course
- Virtual Machine Administrators interested in moving virtualized workloads from traditional Hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
- Kubernetes Administrators (Cluster Administrators, Clusters Engineers) interested in supporting containerized and virtualized workloads in the same OpenShift cluster
Virtualization and Infrastructure Migration Technical Overview
Learn the basics of open source virtualization and migration planning
The Virtualization and Infrastructure Migration Technical Overview (RH018) will help you discover the benefits of open source virtualization, how to better manage your virtualization assets, and the best way to move traditional workloads from one virtualization provider to an open virtualization.
Course Content Summary
- Through online, on-demand videos, you will learn to:
- Easily define infrastructure mappings.
- Create migration plans to confidently balance your workloads.
- Build migration plans to reduce your expenditure on virtualization.
Audience for this course
- IT architects
- Systems engineers
- IT operations
Stage 2: Test your skills
Test your expertise, determine your skills gaps, and get recommendations for where to start with Red Hat Training.
Through a series of questions, the tool will compare your experience level to the required prerequisites for the relevant courses to determine the best place for you to get started.
Stage 3: Start your free learning subscription
Take advantage of a free access to Red Hat Learning Subscription to get a preview of the portal to explore and experience Red Hat products with hours of lab time and outline a custom learning path.
The many ways you can benefit from Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS) include:
- Flexible Learning: Gain year-long, self-paced access to a wide range of training options, including courses, labs, and certifications
- Expert Content: Train with continuously updated material developed by Red Hat experts, ensuring relevance to emerging technologies and industry needs
- Global Accessibility: Available worldwide enabling teams across regions to access high-quality training
- Skill Development: Improve IT and business milestones by acquiring critical skills to navigate Red Hat technologies effectively
- Hands-On Practice: Experiment using labs and virtual environments to improve practical knowledge
- Support and Guidance: Access expert chat, live demos, and reporting tools to track progress and resolve queries efficiently
Stage 4: Design your automation training path
Now you have explored the various tools and trainings - it's time to build your own customised learning journey! Contact our training specialists to discuss your customised skills path & start your learning journey today!
Gain a trusted advisor
As virtualisation technologies evolve, many organisations facing challenges with their existing infrastructure consider alternatives. Despite the need for modernisation, however, the prospect of a considerable migration effort often raises concerns about data security, greater complexity, and steep costs.
Successfully migrating to and managing a modern virtual environment requires specialised skills and knowledge. A Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM) for Red Hat OpenShift can help you mitigate risks, enhance productivity, and achieve your strategic vision.
Here are 4 key reasons to partner with a TAM:
Get hands-on help with your virtualisation strategy
While you’re crafting your migration strategy, your TAM will:
- Provide expert advice on leveraging Red Hat OpenShift features to meet your technical requirements and business goals.
- Review migration roadmaps and work closely with you to optimise your long-term strategy and maximise success.
- Help you make sense of complex infrastructure so you can plan ahead and proactively address potential issues to avoid costly production downtime.
Build a future-ready foundation
Your TAM will work alongside you during every phase of your virtualisation journey, equipping you to achieve your long-term goals by:
- Mentoring your teams as they migrate, create, and manage virtual machines (VMs) on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Delivering presentations, tutorials, and hands-on workshops to build your teams’ knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
- Ensuring your teams have the skills to manage agile, consistent, and security-focused application platforms.
Evolve your operations
Your TAM will ensure you’re prepared to modernise, deploy, and scale your critical applications and workloads by providing:
- Visibility into Red Hat OpenShift product lifecycles and releases to streamline upgrades.
- Advance notice of other changes that may impact your virtual environment, such as bugs, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), and hardware and software advisories.
- Collaboration opportunities with your IT, operations, and development teams to put processes in place that prioritise deployment success and security.
Receive personalized, ongoing support
Your partnership with your TAM will provide you with a dedicated advocate, allowing you to:
- Better navigate challenges within your IT environment.
- Gain confidence in your Day 2 operations through guidance on optimising configuration management and further utilising automation to reduce time-consuming manual processes.
- Resolve complex and time-sensitive issues more efficiently and free up your teams to focus on high-value activities.
- Influence future Red Hat product features via a direct line to Red Hat engineering and product management teams.
Hear firsthand from our TAMs how they can accelerate your OpenShift Virtualization adoption:
Modernise your virtualization strategy with Red Hat OpenShift
Want to deploy virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers and run your hybrid workloads on a modern, unified platform? Or transform your existing infrastructure using a cloud-native approach?
Next-level Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization automation and configuration
You have taken the first steps toward modernising your infrastructure. OpenShift Virtualization is up and running, and you are ready to migrate—or may have even begun migrating—your VMs from other hypervisors. Now it’s time to start putting the power of OpenShift Virtualization to use in your IT operations.
TAM Your Tech
If you would like to find out more how a TAM can help you achieve your business goals and get the most out of the Red Hat Technology, please, book a personalised and free session with a TAM at your convenience.
