Red Hat launches Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine

A new update to the OpenShift environment has just been released to the market. The arrival of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine represents a simpler way for organizations to access virtualization-related workloads.The platform offers to customize the 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.

While containerization may have changed the way virtual machines are used for certain applications, VMs remain a key 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.

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 to implement 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 generates diversity in the approaches they want to adopt with the solutions provided by Red Hat. Red Hat needed to change the way it offered its virtualization solution to accommodate organizations that wished to use only the resources of Red Hat OpenShift focused on virtualization. The Red Hatift Virtualization Engine and Advanced Cluster Virtualization solution to significantly reduce the cost to Red HatShift.  

Redefining virtualization through a simplified approach

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine helps maximize the value of these investments by including only the essential OpenShift tools and components needed for virtualization, simplifying operation and improving efficiency Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and through the KVM hypervisor used in enterprise and cloud data centers, 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. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine scales to meet workload demands while providing built-in security functionality and more consistent performance across the hybrid cloud. 

To facilitate migration efforts, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine includes an intuitive migration tool virtualization toolkit ^'which helps organizations move from other virtualization platforms, simplifying migration workflow and helping reduce downtime while driving greater operational continuity.Red Hat also offers the Virtualization Migration Assessment, an interactive workshop with company experts that assesses the business engines of an organization, current state and the path to migration of low-risk VMs. 

In addition, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enabling IT teams to automate VM migrations at scale, along with everyday VM management tasks. From this solution, organizations can automate and orchestrate across their virtualized environments and other IT areas for more efficient, resilient, and consistent operations at scale.

Another benefit for customers is positioning the Red Hat partner ecosystem to support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine with features such as storage solutions, extensive backup and disaster recovery options, and networking tools to simplify deployments and scale to keep up with modern IT needs.

To unify VM management at scale and limit sprawl (uncontrolled proliferation), Red Hat is also introducing the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization. Built on the basis of the same essential functionalities and technology as the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetesthis new solution provides a set of tools designed to centralize the VM lifecycle and streamline tasks such as VM provisioning, monitoring, and daily compliance, while maintaining greater consistency across the entire virtualized property of the organization.

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 here.