Customer Success with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: A Journey to Modern Infrastructure

Celebrating customer success with OpenShift Virtualization at Red Hat Summit

At the Red Hat Summit this year, attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear directly from customers about their experiences with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, along with some of our virtualization partners. These sessions, led by those who have firsthand experience in implementing and benefiting from OpenShift Virtualization, offer invaluable insights into the practical applications and advantages of the platform. Here are some of the top customer and partner-led sessions that highlight the transformative impact of OpenShift Virtualization. If you’re attending, be sure to join!

Migrating thousands of virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Learn how a Red Hat customer recently migrated thousands of virtual machines (VMs) from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. In this session, technology experts will share insights from the migration process, including:

• Choosing a new VM solution.
• Building a Red Hat OpenShift-based bare-metal platform for hosting VMs.
• Reviewing the architecture and decision-making while building the platform.
• Determining scope, planning, and completing a large-scale migration.
• Modernizing private cloud with application transformation.

Date & Time: May 7, 11:45AM - 12:30PM  MDT
Type of Session: Panel

SiriusXM

Building on the Day 1 keynote session, this keynote will focus on how AI will impact the IT systems customers support. Nate Mason from SiriusXM will be talking about migrating to OpenShift Virtualization and how this supported their modernization journey.

Date & Time: May 8, 8:30 - 9:30 AM MDT

Type of Session: Keynote

OpenShift Commons Gathering: Morning Session:

Emirates NBD and Dell

As part of the main morning session at OpenShift Commons Gathering, this session will focus on case studies from and by end users with production deployments of OpenShift, sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads, and lessons learned along the way. Discover how Emirates NBD, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) largest banks, is revolutionizing its IT landscape by transitioning all workloads, including non-containerizable ones, to OpenShift. They will discuss how this move signifies a deliberate departure from legacy virtualization systems in favor of OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization, facilitating a seamless migration. Additionally, learn from Dell how the Dell Apex appliance, developed in partnership with Red Hat, streamlines OpenShift operations on-premises. This solution accelerates deployment, simplifies management, and enhances security for both containerized and virtual machine workloads alike.

Date & Time: May 6, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MDT

Type of Session: Panel
 

OpenShift Virtualization Customer Roundtables

In addition to these sessions, several customers are discussing their use case on OpenShift Virtualization in a customer roundtable format. Hear directly from your peers who are adopting OpenShift Virtualization. For more details on these two sessions:

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Roundtable Discussion with Emirates NBD 
In this roundtable discussion, we will explore how Emirates NBD, led by Nicholas Justin Grimm, Head of Compute Platforms, is overcoming the challenges of traditional virtualization by adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This interactive session will delve into the operational complexities faced by Emirates NBD and how their migration to Red Hat OpenShift has streamlined operations across on-premise, edge, and cloud environments. Gain insights from their firsthand experiences and learn how this modernization brings advanced application development and deployment principles to VMs, enhancing consistency and efficiency.

Wednesday, May 8, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM MDT
Type of Session: Roundtable Discussion

Modernizing virtualization with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Join this roundtable session to hear how organizations have tackled challenges of traditional virtualization, such as operational complexity, by modernizing with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This session will allow for an interactive discussion about the virtualization challenges that your organization is facing and how others are approaching these challenges. Participants will hear from organizations about their experience and lessons learned migrating existing virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Attendees will learn how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization brings modern application development and deployment principles to VMs, allowing teams to run VMs consistently across on-premise, edge, and supported cloud environments.

Wednesday, May 8, 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM MDT
Type of Session: Roundtable Discussion

Transforming OpenShift operations on-premises with an integrated infrastructure approach

Red Hat OpenShift and Dell have teamed up to enhance how organizations manage virtual machines and containers on-premises. In this session, discover how the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift simplifies multi-cloud deployments, speeds up application delivery, and optimizes workload placement. Learn about its ability to reduce OpenShift deployment times from days to hours and automate the lifecycle management of both hardware and software, slashing update times by 90%. Hear direct customer testimonials on the operational and cost benefits, which help accelerate key IT initiatives.

Tuesday, May 7, 12:15PM - 12:35PM MDT

Thursday, May 9, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM MDT
Type of Session: Breakout

Your hidden IT superpower: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Did you know that in addition to external customers, Red Hat IT has adopted OpenShift Virtualization as the infrastructure where the latest product releases like RHEL are being developed. Red Hat IT will share their learnings from adopting OpenShift Virtualization and the ability to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture. 

Date & Time: May 7, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM MDT

Type of Session: Breakout

Experience Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: A modern application platform for virtual machines

If you want to experience why all of these organizations are adopting OpenShift Virtualization, you can attend the hands-on lab. This lab is specifically tailored to the roles of infrastructure architects and virtualization administrators. By engaging directly with the technology, you can experience firsthand the benefits and capabilities of OpenShift Virtualization.

Date & Time: May 8, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM MDT, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT

Type of Session: Lab

As we continue to celebrate these successes, we invite you to delve deeper into the potential of OpenShift Virtualization by exploring our resources and connecting with experts in Denver next week.

Visit the OpenShift Virtualization webpage to learn more about its capabilities, and download the "15 Reasons to Adopt OpenShift Virtualization" eBook, an invaluable resource to understand the full scope of benefits provided by OpenShift Virtualization. Also, join us at one of our upcoming OpenShift Roadshows to experience firsthand the impact and benefits of this transformative platform. Embrace the future of Virtualization by migrating your traditional virtual machines to OpenShift Virtualization.