Gain business value with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Get more from the virtualization you already have. The solution brief shows how migrating and managing virtual machines and containers on one Kubernetes-based platform lowers infrastructure costs and simplifies operations. Download the solution brief to see how to innovate faster while preserving your existing investments.
What business value can we gain by moving VMs to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization?
Moving your VM workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization helps you get more value from what you already have while preparing for cloud-native growth.
Key business outcomes organizations have seen with Red Hat OpenShift include:
- Up to 636% return on investment over 5 years.
- US$21.6 million in higher annual revenue tied to application modernization.
- 20% higher DevOps and development team productivity.
- 29% faster application development lifecycles.
- Use of up to 22 fewer virtual machines, reducing platform and admin costs.
From a business perspective, OpenShift Virtualization lets you:
- Preserve existing investments by running your current Linux and Microsoft Windows VMs on a modern application platform instead of maintaining legacy stacks.
- Reduce cost by consolidating VMs, containers, and serverless functions on a single, consistent platform across datacenter, public cloud, and edge.
- Increase revenue by supporting new cloud-native and AI-driven services alongside your existing virtualized workloads.
- Improve operational efficiency with unified management, automation, and self-service capabilities that streamline deployment and Day 2 operations.
- Lower risk through expert support, managed upgrades and patching (with OpenShift Service on AWS), and built-in backup and restore for critical workloads.
In short, you can reimagine your virtualization strategy: keep your current workloads, move them to a more flexible platform, and use that same platform to build the next generation of applications.
How does OpenShift Virtualization help us consolidate platforms and cut costs?
OpenShift Virtualization is designed to help you rethink how you run VMs and containers by bringing them onto one application platform.
Cost and efficiency benefits include:
- Single platform for VMs and containers: Run migrated and new VMs, containers, and serverless functions from one unified interface instead of maintaining multiple stacks.
- Consistent experience across environments: Manage on-site datacenters, public cloud, and edge locations with the same tools and processes, reducing complexity and overhead.
- Fewer virtual machines needed: Organizations using Red Hat OpenShift have been able to operate with up to 22 fewer VMs, which directly lowers platform and administrative costs.
- Streamlined operations: A single console for monitoring, scaling, backup, and restore simplifies administration and troubleshooting.
- Automation at scale: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps automate migration and Day 2 operations, further reducing manual work and error risk.
Because OpenShift Virtualization is included with Red Hat OpenShift (self-managed and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), you can consolidate onto a trusted Kubernetes-based platform without adding another standalone virtualization product to your environment.
How does Red Hat support our migration and ongoing operations?
Red Hat provides both technology and expertise to help you plan, execute, and operate your migration with confidence.
Migration and modernization support
- Migration toolkit for virtualization: Speeds and simplifies moving existing VMs from traditional platforms to OpenShift Virtualization at scale, helping minimize downtime and errors.
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Automates migration workflows and Day 2 operations so you can standardize and scale your processes.
- Support for Linux and Windows VMs: OpenShift Virtualization, included with OpenShift subscriptions, simplifies migration of both Linux and Microsoft Windows virtual machines.
Operational reliability and managed options
- Unified management: A single console for VMs and containers, with integrated monitoring, scaling, and backup/restore to keep critical workloads available.
- OpenShift Service on AWS: A fully managed cloud service jointly engineered and supported by Red Hat and AWS. Red Hat SRE teams handle cluster deployment and management so your staff can focus on applications.
- Managed upgrades and security: With OpenShift Virtualization on OpenShift Service on AWS, upgrades, patching, and threat monitoring/remediation are managed to help reduce downtime and security risk.
- Expert support tiers: Multiple support levels give you access to Red Hat specialists in virtualization and Kubernetes to help resolve issues quickly.
To help you get started, Red Hat also offers:
- A 60-day trial of Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization with a self-supported subscription.
- The Red Hat Level Up Program for current OpenShift customers, providing no-cost access to OpenShift with OpenShift Virtualization plus expert guidance and a fully supported 1-year subscription for pilot or production use.
Together, these tools and services are designed to lower migration risk, stabilize day-to-day operations, and give your teams the confidence to reimagine how they run virtualized and cloud-native workloads.
Gain business value with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
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