Many businesses are facing increased costs and uncertainties due to recent changes in virtual machine (VM) pricing. The vendor lock-in associated with traditional virtualization platforms has led to critical IT dependencies and interoperability challenges, hindering the adoption of new use cases like AI. This highlights the need for a deliberate approach to modernize virtualization architectures for enhanced efficiency and innovation.

Red Hat offers an open virtualization infrastructure that assists businesses in migrating existing and new VMs more efficiently with minimal business disruption. This platform provides a cost-effective alternative, helping organizations avoid hefty switching costs and long onboarding times when striving to modernize their applications and integrate new capabilities like AI.

By consolidating on one platform, organizations can streamline administration, reduce exposure to potential attacks, and implement more robust security policies. Let’s explore how Red Hat simplifies VM migration and management from Day 0 to Day 2.

Migrating VMs to a new platform necessitates a phased approach to test and execute migrations effectively. Careful planning is essential to identify dependencies, prioritize workloads, and uncover any potential blind spots or hidden costs well in advance of the actual migration.

Red Hat provides migration assessment services to analyze workloads running on VMs thoroughly, develop a detailed migration plan, and offer training programs for VM administrators to facilitate a smooth transition.

Adopting an alternative VM platform requires organizations to navigate new deployment modes and address configuration complexities. Automation provided by Red Hat’s tools streamlines the migration process, ensuring optimal performance for workloads post-migration.

Red Hat’s ecosystem offers a variety of options for storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery, enhancing flexibility and choice for migrating organizations.

With diverse workloads across different environments, monitoring VMs for high availability can be challenging. Red Hat’s solution provides consolidated monitoring on a single platform, improving visibility and enhancing operational efficiency.

Automating platform management with tools like Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes ensures service continuity and efficiency, empowering organizations to manage their VMs using a cloud-native approach.

Red Hat’s open virtualization infrastructure provides a streamlined solution for migrating and managing VMs alongside modern applications. It incorporates automation at scale to minimize human error, enhance security, and simplify workload management across different operational stages. By leveraging Red Hat’s robust platform, businesses can adapt to changing requirements and maximize their IT investments effectively.

For a demonstration of this solution, visit the Red Hat Blog. Explore the Virtualization Migration Solution architecture and more at the Red Hat Architecture Center.