Red Hat Virtualization Migration Assessment (VMA) Lab

Written by Jason McDonald | Oct 27, 2025 8:26:44 PM

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.

 

Activity

Description

Core Outcomes

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.

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.

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.

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 

Customer Pain Point

Assessment Output

OpenShift Virtualization Benefit

Uncertainty/Risk

A Clear Roadmap (pilot, factory migration approach).

Migrate with confidence using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV).

Day 2 Operations

Analysis of existing automation, DR, and monitoring.

Centralized Management of both VMs and containers on one platform.

Cost & Complexity

High-level solution design and timeline.

Lower Operational Costs and a foundation for future application modernization.
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