Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation

Is it time to make the red shift?

Red Hat OpenShift provides the ideal platform for virtualisation.

These are changing times in the virtualisation market and if your customers are looking for a platform that can meet all their needs, in terms of performance and functionality, scalability, and affordability, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is the ideal solution.

With Red Hat, you know where you are.

Enterprise customers need a platform that they depend upon to support their business-critical applications and services, and what they – and you – need most of all is certainty and stability – and that’s what they get with Red Hat OpenShift.

It’s a proven and reliable solution for which there is a well-established, an easy to understand subscription model and, as an independent subsidiary of IBM, Red Hat is financially stable too.

Red Hat OpenShift and for many customers, this will be the best long-term option. It provides real control and flexibility at a price that’s comparable to what they have been paying for virtualisation to date. It also gives customers that are using on-premises virtualisation today, good options to migrate to the cloud at their own pace in the future.

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Why move to Red Hat OpenShift?

Previously, Red Hat offered virtualisation through a solution called Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation. The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology that sat at the heart of this solution has now been incorporated within the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and this integrated platform can now be used to run both on-premises and cloud-based virtual machines and containers.

This is a good time to migrate to Red Hat OpenShift. Containers are regarded by experts as being the way all enterprises will manage their workloads in the future – and OpenShift is widely acknowledged as clear leader in this market.

Moving to OpenShift does not mean that customers need to move everything across to containers right away. On the contrary, one of the main attractions of Red Hat OpenShift is that customers can transfer their VMs across and migrate them to containers on the same platform at their own pace.

Additionally, with the tools that come as part of Red Hat OpenShift, DevOps teams can modernise virtual machines as needs change. Moving to OpenShift thus future-proofs customers’ investments in virtualised environments.

A smooth transition.

While Red Hat OpenShift certainly differs to VMware, they do have comparable features and both solutions can be used to achieve the same outcomes. Red Hat has designed the VM management interfaces of OpenShift to make them as similar as possible to those seen in VMware. This makes it easier for anyone who has been used to vSphere to pick up OpenShift.

In addition, as a Microsoft Server Virtualisation Validation Program (SVVP) partner, Red Hat OpenShift provides full support for Microsoft workloads and VMs.

The OpenShift KVM hypervisor is highly efficient and delivers excellent performance and with a single, unified platform for containers and virtualisation that can be used across the entire infrastructure – with on-premises and cloud-based resources and in the core and at the edge – it is easy and efficient to administer and control and delivers excellent ROI.

Migrating your customers to Red Hat OpenShift

TD SYNNEX has a team of Red Hat experts who can help you with every aspect of setting up and migrating your customers to OpenShift. We also have partnerships with migration specialists who can make it easy for you to transition customers from current virtualisation platforms to Red Hat OpenShift.