A new update for the OpenShift environment has just been released in the market. The arrival of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine represents a simpler path for organizations to access workloads related to virtualization. The platform allows customization of deployment, management, and scalability of virtual machines (VMs), removing resources unrelated to managing these machines. This ensures that companies can maximize their technology journeys as they align their solutions with the specific needs of their infrastructure.
Although containerization may have changed how virtual machines are used for certain applications, VMs remain a fundamental tool in IT infrastructure. However, with the virtualization market undergoing significant changes in recent years, many organizations face uncertainties and rising costs when it comes to managing their infrastructure.
For Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager of Red Hat cloud platforms, the lack of standardization is one of the biggest problems for organizations implementing the discipline. ‘As organizations seek to modernize their virtual environments to meet the demands of today’s IT landscape, we realize that none of them are at the same point in their virtualization journey. This creates diversity in the approaches they want to adopt with the solutions provided by Red Hat. Red Hat needed to change how it offered its virtualization solution to accommodate organizations that wanted to use only Red Hat OpenShift resources focused on virtualization. The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine and Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization allow Red Hat to significantly reduce the cost of the solution to serve these users in their modernization efforts,’ he said.
Redefining virtualization through a simplified approach
The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine helps maximize the value of these investments by including only essential OpenShift tools and components necessary for virtualization, simplifying operations and improving efficiency. Powered byRed Hat OpenShift Virtualizationand the KVM hypervisor used in enterprise datacenters and the cloud, the platform can operate on on-premises hardware that supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and on supported bare metal services, including AWS bare metal instances. The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine scales to meet workload demands while providing built-in security features and more consistent performance across the hybrid cloud.
To facilitate migration efforts, the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine includes an intuitive migration tool — thevirtualization toolkit— which helps organizations transition from other virtualization platforms, simplifying the migration workflow and helping reduce downtime while generating greater operational continuity. Red Hat also offers theVirtualization Migration Assessment, an interactive workshop with company experts that evaluates an organization’s business drivers, current state, and the path toward low-risk VM migration.
Additionally, the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates with theRed Hat Ansible Automation Platformenabling IT teams to automate VM migrations at scale, along with everyday VM management tasks. With this solution, organizations can automate and orchestrate their virtualized environments and other IT areas for more efficient, resilient, and consistent operations at scale.
Another benefit for customers is the positioning of Red Hat’s partner ecosystem to support the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine with functionalities such as storage solutions, extensive backup and disaster recovery options, and networking tools to simplify deployments and scale to meet modern IT needs.
To unify VM management at scale and limit sprawl (uncontrolled proliferation), Red Hat is also introducing theRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization. Built on the same core functionalities and technology as theRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, this new solution provides a toolset designed to centralize VM lifecycles and streamline tasks such as VM provisioning, daily monitoring, and compliance, while maintaining greater consistency across an organization’s virtualized estate.
Availability
The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization are now available. More information on how to get started can be foundhere.
