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Red Hat Unveils Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine
New virtualization-centric offering provides a tailored experience for managing virtual machines
while providing a path for application modernization

January 20, 2025 — Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of
Red Hat OpenShift that provides a dedicated way for organizations to access the proven
virtualization functionality already available within Red Hat OpenShift. Focused exclusively on
virtualization workloads, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine provides a tailored option for
deploying, managing and scaling virtual machines (VMs), removing features unrelated to VM
management. This ensures organizations can maximize the value of OpenShift Virtualization
while aligning with their specific infrastructure needs.

While containerization may have shifted how virtual machines are used for certain applications,
VMs remain a critical tool in IT infrastructure. However, with the virtualization market
experiencing significant changes in recent years, many organizations face uncertainty and rising
costs when it comes to managing their virtualization infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine delivers a cost-efficient virtualization-only solution for
deploying, managing and scaling virtual machines.

Redefined virtualization through a streamlined approach

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine helps maximize the value of these investments by
entitling only essential OpenShift features and components required for virtualization, delivering
simplified operations and improved efficiency. Powered by Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and
the KVM hypervisor used across the enterprise datacenter and cloud, Red Hat OpenShift
Virtualization Engine is able to run on on-premises hardware that supports Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, and on supported bare metal cloud services including AWS bare metal instances. Red
Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine scales to meet workload demands while providing built-in
security capabilities and more consistent performance across the hybrid cloud.

To ease migration efforts, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine includes access to Red Hat’s
intuitive migration tool - the migration toolkit for virtualization - that assists organizations in
transitioning from other virtualization platforms, simplifying the migration workflow and helping to
reduce downtime while driving greater operational continuity. Red Hat also offers a Virtualization
Migration Assessment, an interactive workshop with Red Hat experts that will assess an
organization’s business drivers, current state and the path to low risk VM migration. Additionally,
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform