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Press Release

Red Hat Powers Modern Virtualization on Microsoft Azure

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations more
easily migrate to a modern infrastructure

June 03, 2025 — Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the public
preview of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Available as a self-
managed operator included in Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers
organizations an accelerated path to modernization by streamlining the migration of virtual machines
(VMs) from existing virtualization platforms to a scalable, cloud-native platform.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a turnkey application platform that is jointly managed and supported by
Red Hat and Microsoft, designed to help to reduce the complexities associated with managing the
underlying infrastructure and empower IT teams to focus time and resources on innovation and
modernization rather than routine maintenance. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red
Hat OpenShift, organizations benefit from a more consistent hybrid cloud stack that can support VMs
and containers alike to help significantly streamline application modernization and accelerate cloud-
native strategies. This enables organizations to more effectively modernize existing critical VM
infrastructure while continuing to evolve with new innovations that meet future business needs.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift empowers organizations to:

● Accelerate VM migration: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift helps
organizations quickly migrate and scale existing VM workloads with built-in migration tooling
and automation capabilities, such as those through Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, to simplify the migration process, minimize
disruption and enable teams to quickly shift to modern infrastructure.
● Simplify operations: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a
unified view of operations to more seamlessly manage both VMs and containers on the same
platform across the hybrid cloud. Automated deployment and management of Red Hat
OpenShift clusters further reduces complexity and risk.
● Modernize infrastructure: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
allows customers to build, modernize and deploy applications at scale. By adopting this
Kubernetes-based platform, organizations instantly land on modern infrastructure that brings
them two steps closer to their cloud-native application modernization goals. Azure Red Hat
OpenShift brings modern application development processes and tools to VMs that help
expedite the modernization of VM-based applications.
● Optimize resources: In addition to increasing DevOps productivity and decreasing the time to
deploy applications with Azure Red Hat Openshift, further optimization can be realized with
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization by right-sizing VMs to better match workload needs.

Built on the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes and
Microsoft Azure’s trusted cloud infrastructure, Azure Red Hat OpenShift delivers a future-ready
platform with integrated security tooling, automation and management capabilities to extend
innovation across the hybrid cloud.