Bringing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to Google Cloud

Today’s organizations are challenged with balancing outdated infrastructure, rising subscription costs in the virtualization market and the need for infrastructure modernization. While virtual machines (VMs) remain a critical part of IT environments, cloud computing and containerization is the new standard. To provide customers with increased flexibility around where they run their VMs, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now available with Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud c3 bare-metal instances and Red Hat’s managed offering, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, both available as a technology preview. Bare-metal instances are powered by the Titanium offload system, and are native Compute Engine instances, part of Google Cloud’s server fleet in Google Cloud data centers, consumable just like any other Compute Engine VM.

With OpenShift Virtualization as a self-managed operator on Google Cloud, organizations can migrate VMs from their current virtualization environment onto a cloud-native application platform and take advantage of Google Cloud's scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness while using a trusted, consistent and comprehensive application platform. 

Accelerate and simplify VM migration 

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables a streamlined transition from your existing virtualization platform with the backing of Red Hat and Google’s expertise, along with proven migration frameworks. Integrated tools such as the migration toolkit for virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform streamline the process, helping minimize disruption while enabling large-scale VM migrations through automation.

Additionally, by taking advantage of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud, organizations can quickly deploy a fully managed application platform, eliminating the need for on-premise hardware setup and reducing operational complexity to help accelerate their cloud journey.

Manage VMs and containers consistently with one platform

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers a unified view and a consistent operational model for managing application workloads across on-premise environments, Google Cloud and edge deployments. This streamlined approach enhances efficiency and fosters better collaboration between VM administrators and platform development teams. Businesses gain comprehensive visibility into the performance and health of both VMs and containers. 

With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, scaling VM management becomes simpler and more efficient. Additionally, customers can take advantage of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, a fully managed platform supported by a specialized 24x7 global site reliability engineering team, ensuring reliability and expert assistance. Security remains a top priority, with Google Cloud’s advanced security tools, encryption and industry-standard compliance safeguarding your IT environment.

A modern virtualization solution

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Google Cloud offers the scalability to support everything from small deployments to large enterprise workloads, ensuring your organization can grow without limitations. By integrating virtualization with containers, organizations can adopt the latest cloud-native technologies like generative AI (gen AI), enabling them to fast-track innovation without leaving behind critical legacy applications and infrastructure.

How to learn more: 

• Make sure to attend session LT2373 to learn about All things virtualization and AI for Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
• Explore Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud in session LT3311.
• Read more about Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
• Watch this demo.
• Get started with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization by deploying Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated or Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform through Google Cloud Marketplace.