A new update for the OpenShift environment has just been released to the market. The arrival of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine represents a simpler path for organizations to access virtualization-related workloads. The platform offers the ability to customize the deployment, management, and scalability of virtual machines (VMs), removing resources unrelated to the management of 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 the way 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 increasing costs when it comes to managing their infrastructure.
To 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 the current 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 had to change the way it offered its virtualization solution to accommodate organizations that wanted to use only the Red Hat OpenShift resources focused on virtualization. The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine and the 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 operation and improving efficiency. Fueled byRed Hat OpenShift Virtualizationand through the KVM hypervisor used in enterprise data centers 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 ease migration efforts, 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 to reduce downtime while increasing operational continuity. Red Hat also offers theVirtualization Migration Assessmentan interactive workshop with company specialists that assesses the organization's business engines, current state, and the path toward low-risk VM migration.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates withRed Hat Ansible Automation Platformallowing IT teams to automate large-scale VM migrations along with daily VM management tasks. From this solution, organizations can automate and orchestrate in their virtualized environments and other IT areas for more efficient, resilient, and consistent operations at scale.
Another benefit for customers is positioning Red Hat's partner ecosystem to support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine with capabilities 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, Red Hat is also introducingRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization. Built on the same core functionality and technology as theRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, this new solution provides a toolset designed to centralize the VM lifecycle and streamline tasks such as VM provisioning, day-to-day monitoring and compliance, while maintaining greater consistency across an organization’s virtualized estate.
Availability
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 found herehere.
