Virtualization Migration Assessment
Many organizations are experiencing deviation in their virtualization environment and are being confronted with outdated solutions and rising related expenses. Red Hat® Virtualization Migration Assessment is an experience-driven framework that helps IT teams understand, plan, and create a strategic path for their organization’s virtual machine (VM) infrastructure migrations. Red Hat Consulting uses this engagement to provide organizations with a clear roadmap and timeline for migrating VMs away from their traditional virtualization provider.
Experienced Red Hat architects run a short series of 2-hour, on-site workshops with your organization’s teams (networking, platform, and security) to assess the current environment, gather requirements, and review the goals for a desired future state. Red Hat experts will work to understand and analyze the infrastructure and workload complexities to build a migration plan of high confidence.
Virtualization Migration Assessment
The consulting experts at Red Hat will assess your organization’s business drivers, current state, and the path to future state in a series of interactive discovery and design workshops. This assessment forms the basis for a high-level solution roadmap to production and a customized migration journey and proposal. Working together, IT team leaders and Red Hat experts will build a path that can include the following activities.
Activity | Outcomes |
Perform discovery workshops with relevant stakeholders to understand where you are going |
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Identify VM workloads | Define integrations such as storage, networking, and clustering requirements. |
Co-create | Work with Red Hat to receive a high-level solution roadmap to migrate VMs safely and in less time. |
Propose a high-level solution roadmap | Customize the next step in virtualization migration, including targeting an existing virtualization platform and scaled migration approach and tooling. |
Generate a strategy to manage timing and pricing | Take advantage of the full documentation of workshop findings, including the current technology environment, people, and process necessary for next steps to work effectively. |
The final output is a high-level solution roadmap presenting effective options for meeting organizational requirements, the initial scope and priorities for the pilot, and an approach for a migration factory and optional modernization effort to reach predefined outcomes.
Solution overview
Establish a plan to lower costs and accelerate innovation.
Typical staffing resources (time and staffing can vary)
- Engagement lead
- Consulting architect
Benefits
- Create a strategic plan for VM infrastructure migration.
- Accelerate innovation across defined milestones.
- Strategize how to realize value during the pilot and factory migration of VMs onto an existing Red Hat platform.
Limited-time offer
The cost of a Virtualization Migration Assessment is applied as a credit toward qualifying Red Hat OpenShift subscriptions. Contact your business account representative to unlock these savings.
Go beyond virtualization
The virtualization journey is a perfect entry point to reevaluate goals for a broader IT landscape. While the Virtualization Migration Assessment provides a clear path for VM infrastructure, Red Hat Consulting can tailor this engagement to address the most critical modernization priorities by pairing the Virtualization Migration Assessment with a standalone assessment.
Whether the organization’s IT leaders are committed to containerization, AI platform implementation, application migration, or improving the developer experience, this flexible model delivers a holistic roadmap that can take organizations beyond migration to true modernization for a comprehensive strategic roadmap. For organizations not yet ready to commit to a second full assessment, Red Hat offers a modular approach. This approach includes a more comprehensive session and can be added to explore individual modernization topics.
The Red Hat difference
Red Hat Consulting works with Red Hat engineering teams to deliver advanced solutions which provide focused insight into upcoming features and product roadmaps. Red Hat Consulting is positioned strategically to align teams, streamline processes, and help enterprise systems and applications work together using open source and proprietary technologies.
A successful migration requires IT teams, having the specialized skills needed to operate the new platform effectively. Red Hat Training and Certification offers a suite of expert-level courses that equip teams with the essential knowledge to use Red Hat technology. A flexible Red Hat OpenShift® skills path is available to help build and validate the advanced skills necessary through Red Hat Certification.
Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) offer personalized 1-on-1 support and work closely with organizations to resolve potential problems before they occur, minimizing disruption and allowing IT teams more time to focus on key business challenges.
Instead of looking at simply migrating from one virtualization platform to another, we collectively saw this as an opportunity for additional transformation and modernization.1
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Red Hat case study. “Red Hat, TEKsystems Global Services, and AWS partner to build a cloud-based future.” 2 Feb 2025.
