Overview
If virtualization is an important part of your IT strategy, you may be looking for ways to reduce complexity, improve cost management, or modernize for the future. As more organizations adopt virtualization, interest in finding the best platform for migrating virtual machines (VMs) quickly and with low risk grows.
Red Hat is well positioned to address virtualization challenges, including high costs, innovation barriers, and migration complexities. We've long been involved with open source virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Kubevirt. Built on both KVM and Kubevirt, Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization―an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift―helps you migrate and deploy new and existing VM workloads. And Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform speeds up migration and easily automates operations.
Why migrate your VM workloads?
With virtualization, VM resources that are typically bound to hardware can use a physical machine’s full capacity by distributing its capabilities among users or environments. This allows multiple operating systems to run alongside each other and share the same virtualized hardware resources.
When migrating with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, you can integrate workloads with tools that let you efficiently manage VMs, containers, and serverless workloads. OpenShift Virtualization helps:
Reduce costs
Migrating your VMs helps you save on infrastructure. With those savings, your organization can allocate funds to other priorities. Additionally, if you already pay for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux® license subscription, you can take advantage of its guest entitlements, which are included with OpenShift Virtualization.
Innovate with open source communities
Open source development and an extensive community of contributors foster innovation. Red Hat’s support of virtualization development started when the open source KVM hypervisor was included in the Linux kernel in 2007. Red Hat engineers have also been involved with the VM-management Kubevirt project since its inception. Both KVM and KubeVirt are at the center of OpenShift Virtualization.
Simplify migration and management
OpenShift Virtualization provides a simple way to migrate VMs from other hypervisors with the included migration toolkit for virtualization. OpenShift Virtualization also lets VM administrators and teams manage their workloads from a single platform. And for larger-scale migrations, Ansible Automation Platform helps ensure smooth and automated transitions.
Why modernize your VM workloads?
Modernization promotes simplified application development, efficient infrastructure management, and more innovation for your VM workloads. OpenShift Virtualization supports infrastructure and application modernization―including artificial intelligence (AI)―helping organizations bring new products to market faster.
When you modernize with OpenShift Virtualization, you can:
Embrace containers and cloud-native application development
After migrating your VMs, at your own pace you can modernize your workloads on a single, cloud-native virtualization platform that supports VMs, containers, and serverless workloads. Because containers are the ideal environment to deploy cloud-native applications, modernization opens the door to cloud-services deployments on popular platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Containers and cloud-native applications also facilitate the use of DevOps and continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) practices and more scalable workflows.
Integrate AI capabilities
Modernizing VM-based applications gives you more flexibility to incorporate AI capabilities and train AI models. By using the modern tools and management principles integrated into Red Hat OpenShift, your organization can innovate for the future using AI technologies.
Increase cost savings
Like migrating VMs, modernization fosters efficiency and supports better resource usage. Modernizing VMs can reduce development, operations, and maintenance costs, helping teams take advantage of new tools and technologies to work more effectively.
How Red Hat can help
Red Hat’s portfolio of products offers an effective way to migrate and modernize your VM workloads. Red Hat OpenShift’s modern infrastructure supports virtualization by taking advantage of the KVM hypervisor and KubeVirt for VM management. Red Hat OpenShift offers cloud-native hybrid cloud application development and delivery capabilities, while making it possible to train AI models and incorporate AI capabilities.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform accelerates the migration of VMs and aids in the management, operation, and modernization of their virtual environments. Ansible Automation Platform brings traditional existing infrastructure, cloud-native applications, and virtual infrastructure together and automates Day 2 operations across cloud-native and virtualized applications.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers a unified, scalable platform for migrating traditional virtual machines. It ensures consistent management across hybrid cloud environments and supports modernization efforts so your organization can efficiently manage and deploy VMs, containers, and serverless workloads with a comprehensive set of development and operations tools. With OpenShift Virtualization, you can continue using the virtualized technologies you’re invested in. You’ll also gain the advantages of Red Hat OpenShift’s cloud-native application platform to modernize your VM-based workloads. Teams can run a VM within a container, allowing them to deploy and manage VMs along with containers on a single platform.
