Virtualization

Migrate with confidence. Modernize with choice.

Virtual machines aren’t going anywhere, but your options for running and managing them are expanding fast. Get the stability you need today and flexibility you’ll need tomorrow with hybrid cloud virtualization solutions.

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SiriusXM modernizes virtualization with Red Hat

Find out how SiriusXM teamed with Red Hat and Portworx to create a single application stack that runs across hybrid environments to support VMs and containers without sacrificing performance, disaster recovery, or automation.

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[The solution created with Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx] hit all the marks—low cost of ownership, works on-premise, in the cloud, or at the edge. It's an integrated ecosystem, and from a storage point of view, it just fits.

Nate Mason

Director of Platform Operations, SiriusXM

Migrate VMs without disruption

Migrating your VMs to a modern platform shouldn’t interrupt your workflows. It should strengthen them. Preserve your investments and enhance your capabilities with our virtualization solutions trusted to work reliably and flexibly. Backed by comprehensive tooling and partner integrations, our open source foundation ensures continuity and ingenuity. We’ll help you evaluate the health of your virtual machines, identify critical workloads, and make a plan to migrate without disruption.

Modernize VMs on your terms

Getting ahead often means adopting new technologies. Staying ahead means having control over how you use them. With our virtualization solutions, you can modernize VM-based apps and infrastructure incrementally using familiar tools and processes. Red Hat OpenShift provides a unified environment for VMs, containers, serverless apps, and your future AI workloads across on-premise, cloud, and edge environments—making modernization a journey, not a disruption.

The state of virtualization: Key trends, challenges, and strategies

See how IT leaders approach virtualization across cloud, platform, and migration needs and plan future innovations with virtual machines and containers.

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Assess your virtualization migration needs

Make a plan to migrate your VMs off your traditional virtualization provider with Red Hat Consulting.

Why choose our virtualization solutions?

The backbone of enterprise virtualization, the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) is trusted for its ability to create efficiency at scale. That’s why it's the sole hypervisor across our entire virtualization portfolio, and already included in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. We even continually improve the kernel code with contributions to the KVM community

Efficiency depends on ease and speed, too. Our virtualization solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization and Red Hat Developer Hub, build on Red Hat OpenShift to help organizations manage VMs alongside containers and serverless workloads on a unified platform, creating consistency between traditional and cloud-native infrastructures. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine lets you deploy, manage, and scale VMs only, addressing immediate virtualization needs. All solutions integrate with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform to automate delivery—and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management lets you centrally manage both virtual and containerized environments at scale.

Straightforward migration. Lasting modernization.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization lets you run VMs and containers side by side. Migrate quickly, modernize at your own pace, and manage all of your apps consistently on a single, trusted application platform.

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Work with your existing partners

With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, you can run on your preferred cloud platform and select the partners that work for you—for storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery.

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Overview

Gain business value with OpenShift Virtualization

Explore how to reduce virtualization complexity and improve efficiency with a modern application platform.

Blog

The strategic shift: Avoiding the complexity tax for virtualization

Discover how IT leaders from Ford and Emirates NBD unified VMs and containers on a cohesive platform.

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15 reasons to adopt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Learn 15 key benefits of deploying Red Hat OpenShift as a unified app platform for both VMs and containers.