Red Hat Virtualization Migration Assessment Lab
The Red Hat Virtualization Migration Assessment Lab is an experience-driven, consultative framework designed to help customers understand, plan, and create a strategic path for migrating their existing virtual machine (VM) infrastructure (often from a traditional provider like VMware) to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
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Activity |
Description |
Core Outcomes |
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Discovery Workshops |
Short, interactive sessions (often 2-hour, on-site) with key customer stakeholders (networking, platform, security, application owners) to understand their current environment, business drivers, and goals for the future state. |
Documented current-state analysis of infrastructure, workloads, and operational processes. Identification of key virtualization use cases. |
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Analysis & Requirements |
Red Hat Architects analyze existing infrastructure and workload complexities. They gather requirements for the target platform, Day 2 operations (automation, DR, monitoring), and security/compliance. |
Detailed requirements for storage, networking, and clustering. Identification of initial VM workloads for a pilot migration. |
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Co-Creation & Planning |
Red Hat works with the customer to design the high-level solution and a migration strategy. This leverages the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), which is included with OpenShift. |
High-level solution design for OpenShift Virtualization. A customized migration roadmap and timeline, including an approach for a "migration factory" and potential modernization efforts. |
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Final Deliverables |
The consolidated findings and plans are documented. |
A clear roadmap with estimated timing and pricing for the next steps (pilot, scaled migration). |
1. Opportunity
- The Problem: Customers face rising costs, licensing uncertainty, or a desire to modernize from their traditional virtualization platform.
- The Opportunity: The assessment is a free, first step to get a clear, executive-ready plan. It answers a customer's biggest question: "How do we actually do this?"
2. Engagement Process
The assessment is typically a focused effort over a short period (e.g., a few weeks) and includes:
- Initial Kickoff: Set the scope, introduce the Red Hat team (Architects/Consultants), and outline the engagement timeline.
- Data Collection & Workshops: This is where we facilitate the discovery sessions. This is a crucial step to qualify the technical feasibility and identify complexity and risk.
- Analysis & Design: We synthesize the workshop findings and build the high-level solution design and migration approach, focusing on how the current environment's core services (storage, networking, identity) map to OpenShift.
- Final Readout: We present the detailed findings, the migration roadmap, and the proposed next steps.
3. Value of the Assessment
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Customer Pain Point |
Assessment Output |
OpenShift Virtualization Benefit |
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Uncertainty/Risk |
A Clear Roadmap (pilot, factory migration approach). |
Migrate with confidence using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV). |
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Day 2 Operations |
Analysis of existing automation, DR, and monitoring. |
Centralized Management of both VMs and containers on one platform. |
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Cost & Complexity |
High-level solution design and timeline. |
Lower Operational Costs and a foundation for future application modernization. |
