Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

Reviews

20 Reviews

A trustworthy choice to use in migration to containers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a useful platform that can help in your journey from VM's to containers. You host both in the same cluster and migrate the apps one by one. For us it is a crucial platform that allowed to do such a migration and also open new opportunities for new applications.

Pros

Support for virtualisation
Robust container platform
Stable platform

Cons

Improved patching
Easy migration on updates

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a perfect destination if you want to migrate from VMWare, but also you need to have a well prepared staff in order to administer the cluster it self, but also the migration process.

Cristian Racu

Deputy CEO in Information Technology at Biroul de Credit (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily right now we're doing with VMs. We were a Rev customer and migrated our Rev VM workloads to OpenShift virtualization. We also have our eye on the future with container environment, so it fits perfectly into what we were doing now and what we look to do in the future.

Pros

It's a one pane of glass, so when we have Rev only it was a hypervisor for VMs. OpenShift, you can put Ansible in it, you can hook into satellite, it can do with OpenShift AI. You can do AI models and stuff like that. So I think it's more like a Swiss Army knife rather than a fire extinguisher.

Cons

OpenShift virtualization has a little room for improvement. I'm coming from it as a Rev customer. There's some things in that OpenShift virtualization that were in Rev that I would like to see in OpenShift virtualization. I realized that they're chasing the VMware crowd and that's fine, but from us old Rev customers, we'd like to see some things that was in Rev around via migration and things of that nature that could be in OpenShift virtualization, I hope is being planned to be put in.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited if you are looking to do containers, if you're looking for an easy way to build a container platform, there's so much in it to easily do that. Right now it's not as great as handling VMs with my aforementioned comments about how it can improve. So I would say it's low point right now it's the VMs, but it looks like they're improving. But the high point is always containerization.

Victor Williams

Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Red Hat OpenShift to Spend less and have common platform for containers and VM

Pros

In my opinion, Red Hat OpenShift does Open well

Cons

I think there is room for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift with Scale

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat OpenShift is an ideal solution which gives unified platform for all kind of workload. Currently seeing the business requirements it is heavily being seen as an alternative for current virtualised platform due to commercials and non flexibility in the offering from legacy platforms.

Pros

Unified platform for Virtualised, containerised and AI workload.
Comprehensive application platform
Consistent across hybrid cloud

Cons

Compatibility with SAP workload
Complexity in setting up the build incase of migration, like network, storage configuration which are done manually can also be automated.
Compatibility with oracle

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat has proven OpenShift as a validated solution as per the customer’s requirements and seeing the current market landscape. It gives flexibility in choosing your own solution and workout based on the workload present in the customer’s current environment.

Verified User

Partner in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift the cloud-native platform for everyone

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Red Hat OpenShift for Container development, and the needs of develop cloud-native ready apps

Pros

Stability
Simplicity
Security

Cons

Secrets Management by it-self
On-board deployment

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend Red Hat OpenShift to a colleague because, in my opinion, Red Hat OpenShift Is the best solution to get virtualization and container in one-console experience

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great solution for virtualization

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Red Hat OpenShift as a replacement for our current virtual solution and to modernize our environment. We are replacing 4 production clusters and 3 lab clusters. Beginning with just virtualization but with an eye toward implementing more containerized workloads, pipelines, and a hybrid cloud strategy in the long run.

Pros

Streamlined bare-metal cluster deployment via the Assisted Installer
Simplified migration via the Migration toolkit for Virtualization
Easy access to useful metrics and information

Cons

Increased visibility from Multi-cluster managment would be nice

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat OpenShift is a powerful, versatile, and resilient platform for hosting both containers and Virtual Machines, and with Red Hat OpenShift for Virtualization creates a more straightforward path to implementation as a replacement for existing virtualization solution.

Andres Garcia

Systems Engineer in Engineering at Telesystem (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

[...] Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

mainly to run Telco workloads

Pros

centralized and automated tools
stability
variety of operators available for different purposes

Cons

hardcoded features (especially on IPI implementations)
lack of clarity on documentation, specifically for HCP scenarios
support sometimes is not excellent

Likelihood to Recommend

our workloads run well on OCP ecosystem, the deployments are quite stable and the interaction with the hardware works extremely well, especially for users plane workloads on where high throughput is required (SRIOV)

Jorge Soriano

Telco Cloud Engineer in Engineering at B-yond project (for ATT) (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

A paradigm shift in managing containers and VMs

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Multi cluster setup. Identity management and security issues.

Pros

Operators
Ease of management
Ability to use containers and VM's

Cons

Backups and restore
Storage provisioning
SSO

Likelihood to Recommend

Ability to integrate multiple options using Operators. Ease of management.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

We're new to it but we're enjoying it

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We’re using it for Virtualization, Clusters,-and Containers management. We primarily looked at it to look diversify our tech stack and improve automation capabilities.

Pros

Application deployment within the UI
Provides ease by generating yamls for the resources we make.
Integrated well with our CI/CD pipeline.

Cons

Virtualization may need to improve vm migration from node to node. We’ve had issues with that and ping drops.

Likelihood to Recommend

We’re still a bit hesitant with virtualization, because we’re comparing to the ease of vsphere and tanzu.

Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A Good Alternative for VMware

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 21, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat OpenShift virtualization platform is a swift platform for VMware alternative, considering for both virtualization and containerization platform move with in the on prem hardware, migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift virtualization is the go to platform. A good platform for the near platform with all the VMware features

Pros

VM to VM migration from different virtualization platform
VM to Containerization platform
More Secure and reliable

Cons

Support 3rd party backup tools
Default Tools for evaluating the current workloads and dashboard
AI features for best practices

Likelihood to Recommend

Most trusted platform for easy migration particularly from VMware

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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