Migration assessment: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Many organizations are experiencing shifts in their virtualization landscape and are being confronted with outdated solutions and rising expenses. Red Hat® 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 run a short series of two-hour, on-site workshops with your networking, platform, and security teams to assess the current environment and gather requirements and goals for your desired future state. They will work to understand and analyze both the infrastructure and workload complexities to build a migration plan of high confidence.

Red Hat Consulting: Virtualization Migration Assessment

ActivityOutcomes
Perform discovery workshops with relevant stakeholders to understand where you are going
  • Analyze existing investments and infrastructure and gather requirements for your future target platform 
  • Identify virtualization use case(s) in preparation for the pilot
  • Understand Day 2 operations including, but not limited to, automation and configuration management, disaster recovery, and monitoring 
  • Identify current ways of working, skill sets, and organizational processes
  • Understand security and compliance requirements
Identify VM workloadsDefine integrations such as storage, networking, and clustering requirements
Co-createRed Hat will provide a high-level solution design and migration plan to migrate your VMs efficiently and safely
Propose a high-level solution design to achieve your end goalCustomize the next step in virtualization migration, including targeting your virtualization platform and Red Hat OpenShift® migration factory approach and tooling
Generate a roadmap to understand timing and pricingFull documentation of workshop findings, including the current technology landscape, people, and process to work for next steps



The final output is a high-level design solution and roadmap presenting effective options for meeting your requirements, the initial scope and priorities for the pilot, and an approach for a migration factory and optional modernization effort to reach your defined outcomes. 

Solution overview

Establish a plan to lower costs and accelerate innovation

Typical staffing resources (time and staffing may vary)

  • Delivery lead
  • Principal architect

Benefits

  • 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.

Limited-time offers

  • Your initial investment from the Virtualization Migration Assessment gets credited back to your subscriptions if you choose to move forward with Red Hat.
  • Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Exam (DO317) - Get 70% off the bundle through December 31, 2024.

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As IT leaders make changes to modernize their virtualization infrastructure through containers and Kubernetes, it is imperative that IT professionals are equipped with the skills to succeed using technologies like OpenShift Virtualization. Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Exam (DO317) builds virtualization skills through training with cloud-based lab time and then validates those skills through Red Hat certification. For a limited time, we are offering 70% off the course and certification bundle to help you get started.

Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) offer one-on-one specialized support and partner with you to resolve potential problems before they occur, minimizing disruption and allowing you to focus on your key business challenges.

With diverse technical experience, our consultants bring extensive expertise with open source and proprietary systems and application platforms. If you are ready to talk about a Virtualization Migration Assessment for your organization, connect with us.