Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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55 Reviews and Ratings

What is Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization?

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that offers a unified, scalable platform for migrating traditional VMs. It ensures consistent management across hybrid cloud environments and supports modernization efforts.

Categories & Use Cases

#1 most frequent

Information

“Increased savings on virtualization licensing”
— Systems Engineer, Telesystem (51-200 employees)

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

“We were a Rev customer and migrated our Rev VM workloads to OpenShift virtualization.”
— Linux Administrator, Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees)

Michael Wells

Engineering Technologist in Product Management at Dell Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to run VM workloads alongside my containers - mixing traditional workloads and modern workloads. I work on an OpenShift product team at Dell, and maintain multiple lab environments for validation, testing, demonstration, and asset creation. None of these are large scale, or require high availability, but I do need to test as though they do.

Pros

Support for Infrastructure as Code
VM creation is amazingly fast, especially with storage snapshots
VM management experience has been greatly improved

Cons

Creating templates could be easier
There should be an easy way to resize VMs that are provisioned by instance type

Return on Investment

It enables us to be more flexible by supporting more application scenarios
It streamlines the process of integrating traditional and modern workloads, and gives us a consistent management layer

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Other Software Used

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift

Jude Alexis

Systems Engineer in Information Technology at First Citizens Bank (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have worked with OpenShift for the past 2 years or so at FCB. We love it. We've only scratched the surface. Our teammates love it. Even users from the business side of the house are impressed, as things seem to process a lot faster. Of course, at first we were a bit skeptical, as it is normally the case with new products. But as always, Red Hat rocks.

Pros

Code reuse
the reducing of Hardware footprint
Redundancy

Cons

Pricing
More user friendly interface
Navigation

Return on Investment

Well, for starters, it reduces the amount of hardware footprint
The number of personnel taking care of it is less
And yes, maintaining security is great.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Fedora Linux, CentOS Linux

Kinza Alam

Sr data engr sow in Information Technology at Verizin (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for hosting our VMs (virtual machines) in the cluster and agent ops

Pros

agent hosting
scaling VMs

Cons

I think the hybrid model has room for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
I think the scaling has room for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
I think the racks have room for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Return on Investment

time
CDC (change data capture)

Usability

Stephanie Hetrick

Sr analyst in Information Technology at ascension technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for when setting up servers for specific applications that require it

Pros

easy to use
easy to upgraade

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure VMware Solution

Daniel Norris

engineer in Engineering at stackleader (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

move away from VMware - align with kubernetes style management

Pros

run vms
uses the openshift API's
networking

Cons

adoption

Return on Investment

The impact Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization has on our organization's overall business objectives is switching to bare metal provides more resources for workloads over the per core pricing on VM's

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift

Other Software Used

Prometheus, Splunk Cloud Platform

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

SUSE Harvester

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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Categories & Use Cases

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Information

Finance and Insurance