Red Hat SummitMigrate VMs with Red Hat
You likely haven’t thought too much about your virtualization solution—until recently. 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 associated 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 designed for innovations in AI and application modernization via 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Outdated technology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, including full life cycle 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 single consistent platform for developers, platform engineers, and operations teams.
Migrate now
Move your VMs to a new platform without disrupting operations. Red Hat OpenShift includes Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization, which provides proven virtualization capabilities and the migration toolkit for virtualization to help you migrate virtual machines from other hypervisors. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine is a dedicated virtualization solution that lets you focus on deploying, managing, and scaling VMs only—so you only pay for what you need.
Automate the migration process and Day 2 operations at scale with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 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.
Start planning your virtualization migration
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 application 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
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 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 all Red Hat OpenShift editions, 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. For a dedicated virtualization solution, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine provides the virtualization functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to deploy, manage, and scale VMs only.
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
How to migrate
Interactive walkthrough
Migrate virtual machines with Red Hat
Click through for a high-level overview of Red Hat’s virtualization migration solution, starting in VMware vSphere and ending with the real-time monitoring and management of virtual machines (VMs) on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
How to migrate
Interactive walkthrough
Migrate virtual machines with Red Hat
Click through for a high-level overview of Red Hat’s virtualization migration solution, starting in VMware vSphere and ending with the real-time monitoring and management of virtual machines (VMs) on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Customer success stories
Tanobel modernizes applications and preserves legacy investments
Learn how Tanobel improved performance and scalability by replacing its virtualized environment with a modern, hyperconverged compute and storage solution—while preserving existing VM workload investments.
MultiChoice modernizes video streaming with Red Hat
Read how MultiChoice teamed with Red Hat to migrate their traditional virtual machines onto a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform to get their video-on-demand infrastructure ready for the future.
Next steps
Build your skills—at a 70% discount
Get 70% off the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Training and Certification bundle through September 30, 2025.
Explore learning materials and tools
Find content to help you use OpenShift Virtualization—from installation to migrating and managing virtual machines.
