Next Generation Virtualisation with Tier 2 and Red Hat

Are you ready to explore next generation virtualisation? With the recent Broadcom acquisition of VMware and subsequent price changes, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your virtualisation strategy.

Many companies are using this as an opportunity to consider next-gen virtualisation for a more cost-effective, flexible, and scalable solution. Tier 2’s infrastructure consultants are here to help you navigate this transition, offering expert guidance to help you modernise and set sail with confidence through the VMware storm.

Our team can design and implement your VM migration and provide tailored advice, and partner with your organisation at any stage of your container journey. Take advantage of our free, no-obligation consultation call to discuss your virtualisation options with our experts. Request your next-gen virtualisation call today!

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Our Next-Gen platform of choice

Tier 2 Consulting is a Red Hat Premier and Container Specialist Partner. Our next-gen platform of choice, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, provides a modern platform to run and deploy new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads.

Using Red Hat OpenShift, Tier 2 can help organisations to:

• Exploit cloud-native design approaches and agile and DevOps processes,
• Migrate and modernise existing applications,
• Develop new cloud-native applications,
• Accelerate delivery.

Want to know more? Download our About OpenShift Virtualisation flyer to kick-start your next-generation virtualisation journey with Red Hat and Tier 2.

Overview: How does virtualisation work with Red Hat OpenShift?

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization lets you run virtual machines and containers on a single platform. By migrating VMs from other platforms and running them on Red Hat OpenShift, you can get the most from your existing virtualization investments while taking advantage of cloud-native architectures, streamlined operations and management, and new development approaches.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers a path for infrastructure modernisation – allowing you to create, import, clone, migrate, and manage Linux and Microsoft Windows virtual machines on a modern application platform. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is based on KVM, the same proven technology that powered Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualisation solution.

Tier 2 has expert skills in the technologies which underpin Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud offerings. Our team of experts can help with:

• Cluster implementation
• DevOps Enablement
• Application Migration Planning
• Application Migration and Modernisation

Benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization:

1. Single Management Platform – OpenShift Virtualization simplifies operations with a single platform for VMs, containers, and serverless workloads – on premise or in the cloud. As a result, you can standardise infrastructure deployment and maintain all workloads using a common, consistent set of established, enterprise tools.
2. Path to Infrastructure Modernisation – When you migrate VMs from other platforms and run them on Red Hat OpenShift, you can get the most from your existing virtualization investments while taking advantage of cloud-native architectures, streamlined operations and management, and new development approaches.
3. Reduce Time to Production – Streamline infrastructure and application delivery with a platform that supports self-service options and integrations with CI/CD pipelines. By bringing VMs into modern ways of working, OpenShift Virtualization allows developers to build, test, and deploy workloads faster, accelerating time to market.
4. Simplified Migration Process – OpenShift Virtualization includes a simple way to migrate your existing virtual machines from other hypervisors with the included Migration Toolkit for Virtualization – including migrating VMs to the cloud.

Discover more benefits in the 15 reasons to adopt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (Red Hat PDF) flyer.

Ready to explore next-gen virtualisation?

To help kick-start your virtualisation journey, Tier 2 is offering a free-of-charge, no-obligation discovery call with our Red Hat experts. On the call, you can expect to:

• Summarise your current virtualisation challenges and requirements, such as number of VMs, guest operating systems and storage considerations;
• Provide an outline of specific benefits you can expect from deploying OpenShift Virtualisation, and if it could be a good fit for your needs;
• Derive rough-order-of-magnitude (ROM) costs for the implementation of an OpenShift Virtualisation solution, while looking to maximise existing investments;
• Prepare a high-level implementation plan.

Take advantage of our consultation call to discuss your virtualisation options with our containerisation experts. Request your next-gen virtualisation call today!

Further reading:

1. Red Hat OpenShift: Not just for Containers – Discover the future of virtualisation, as we break down Red Hat’s latest webinar on OpenShift Virtualization, sharing the features, benefits, and practical considerations of adopting OpenShift Virtualization within a Kubernetes environment.
2. Navigating the Broadcom Storm: VMware Acquisition & Alternatives – In this article, we cover ESXi discontinuation, vSphere Hypervisor changes and VMware alternatives. Tier 2’s infrastructure consultants can design and implement your VM migration and offer advice.