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partners a Virtualization Migration Assessment that will take organizations through a risk
assessment methodology to help determine the best path forward for migration away from a

legacy virtualization solution.

The latest enhancements in Red Hat OpenShift for virtualization use cases help further
simplify migrating and modernizing virtualized workloads. New features include:

Metro disaster recovery provides regional disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs) that

use storage deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation in conjunction with Red Hat
Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes for management.
Hot-add CPU provides users the ability to add additional vCPU resources to a running VM

in a declarative manner for improved memory density with safe memory overcommit, and
enables users to more easily scale up VMs with CPU hotplug.

Multi-cluster virtualization monitoring with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management enables
users to view all VMs across multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters as well as collect and more

quickly build reports for the VMs.

Improving the customer experience at the edge
Minimizing service downtime is paramount to delivering a quality experience for customers

and is particularly important for those applications at the edge. To enhance service quality at
the edge, Red Hat OpenShift 4.16, introduces a “shift left” approach with image-based

updates (IBU) for single node OpenShift. Single node OpenShift users can now shift a large
portion of the update process to a pre-production environment, which reduces the time spent
updating at the production site. Additionally, if an update fails or the application doesn’t return

to a functioning state, it can be rolled back to the pre-update state. This helps to restore
service as quickly as possible, regardless of whether the update is successful or not.

Additionally, the OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is now available as a technology preview

to Red Hat partners seeking to build turnkey, customized appliances with self-contained Red
Hat OpenShift instances. The OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is a container-based utility

that builds a disk image that includes the Agent-based Installer, which is used to install
multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters. This makes it easier to install Red Hat OpenShift at
remote edge sites at scale, as it can be done with limited or no connectivity and without the

need for an external registry.

Scaling workload security across the hybrid cloud
According to Red Hat’s 2024 State of Kubernetes Security Report, security issues continue to

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