RED HAT OPENSHIFT VIRTUALIZATION
Migrate virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization can be an important part of your overall customer solution stack—especially when their future involves migrating virtual machines to a more modern platform.
Timing is everything
The virtualization market is shifting, and now is the time for your customers to consider OpenShift Virtualization. Traditional market leaders are disrupting their ways of working with partners, and customers are eager for balanced solutions that can support both critical VMs and modern, lightweight technologies like containers and serverless on a single platform.
Adding OpenShift Virtualization as part of your offerings will help you modernize your customers’ infrastructure while opening up additional and consistent revenue streams with:
- Migration assessments
- Planning and proofs of concept
- Migration services
- Modernizing VMs to containers
- Ongoing managed service
Partner opportunity with OpenShift Virtualization
As a feature of Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization lets customers migrate existing virtual machines (VMs) to a modern, hybrid cloud application platform. This lets customers run existing VMs in a stable location while they modernize applications at their own pace. Built from the open source KubeVirt project, OpenShift Virtualization runs on the industry-standard Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). And because KVM is part of Linux®, KVM shares the same security, control, and performance capabilities of Linux.
5.2X
revenue multiplier when partners include Red Hat OpenShift as part of their customers’ solutions.*
39%
blended gross margin on all software and services associated with Red Hat OpenShift provided by Red Hat partners.*
60%
gross margins on managed services associated with partner-supplied Red Hat OpenShift subscriptions.*
Move VMs to OpenShift Virtualization
Using the included migration toolkit, OpenShift Virtualization can migrate existing VMs from other hypervisors—or even to clouds. The same application development pipelines and tools built for containers can also manage your customers’ VMs regardless of where they run. With OpenShift Virtualization, you and your customers can take advantage of infrastructure that allows VMs and containers to be managed by the same set of tools, on a single unified platform.
Maintain existing VM investments
OpenShift Virtualization is a consistent, efficient, and secure platform to deploy both virtualized applications and containerized microservices.
Create a path to modernization
OpenShift Virtualization opens up support opportunities for partners to help customers modernize virtualized applications.
