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What is Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine?

Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization Engine provides the proven virtualization functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines (VMs). Only pay for what you need with a streamlined solution focused exclusively on VM workloads.

Backed by Red Hat’s open source expertise and award-winning support, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine also offers the flexibility to extend the platform’s value for future modernization.

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Features and benefits

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine named a winner in 2025 CRN Tech Innovator Awards

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine won in the category of Virtualization/Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

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Subscription features

With OpenShift Virtualization Engine, you only pay for what you need with a virtualization-centric subscription model. Key subscription features include:

Cost efficiency

Get a straightforward, per-node licensing model for bare-metal deployments—with the flexibility to add virtual clusters using core-based subscriptions. You only pay for what you need.

Simplicity and scalability

It’s built for virtualization, without unnecessary complexity or containerization features. It’s also scalable, ideal for enterprises requiring the support and flexibility to scale their VM-based workloads on-premise and in the public cloud.

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Complete your solution

OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform, and key partners to deliver a complete automation and management solution.

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization manages virtualized environments at scale, supporting consistent performance and compliance across a diverse VM landscape. Gain a centralized, consistent, and compliant management platform for managing VMs throughout their lifecycle and across clusters—from provisioning and performance monitoring to decommissioning.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automates VM migration at scale, as well as related infrastructure such as networks and storage. Streamline tasks like VM provisioning, migration, monitoring, and ongoing infrastructure and Day 2 operational management once migration is complete. Reduce manual efforts, minimize errors, and accelerate operational efficiency across virtualization environments.

Choose your partners

Red Hat’s partner ecosystem helps you complete your virtualization solution with integrated services and products in key areas. Choose the Red Hat certified partners you need to help your organization extend and enhance OpenShift Virtualization Engine—without vendor lock-in.

Storage

Run, scale, and help protect your virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift with the integration of storage software partners. These partners offer consistent integration with Red Hat OpenShift to provide application storage and resilience. Storage partners include:

Dell technologies Hitachi IBM Portworx NetApp Infinidat Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Backup and disaster recovery

Protect virtual machine workloads and maintain uptime during unexpected events so that critical information can be restored and customer operations are not interrupted. Backup and disaster recovery partners include:

OpenText Portworx Storware Trilio Veeam Kasten Arctera InfoScale Rubrik Cohesity CloudCasa Dell
Networking

Rely on a high-performance, scalable networking solution that creates segmentation and manages different security levels in your infrastructure with efficient, centralized management. Networking partners include:

Cisco Isovalent F5 Tigera
Implementation

Achieve your virtualization goals with Red Hat’s services partners. Global and regional service integrators can help assess your virtual infrastructure and create a roadmap for fast migration or full-scale modernization, depending on your business needs. Implementation partners include: 

IBM HCL Technologies NTT DATA Kyndryl EY TEKsystems
Compute hardware

Optimize your on-premise infrastructure for performance with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Certified compute hardware partners include:

Dell technologies IBM Cisco Hewlett Packard Enterprise Lenovo
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Build your virtualization skills

Learn the skills you need to create, migrate, and manage virtual machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Training and Certification.

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Access a comprehensive application platform

Modernization is a key consideration when choosing a home for your workloads. OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a stable platform for virtual machines with straightforward upgrade options that clear a path to innovation in containers, cloud-native development, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Unlimited VMs
Unlimited containers No. Additional subscriptions are required to run containers.
Unlimited Red Hat Enterprise Linux® guest VMs Requires purchase of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters
Migration toolkit for virtualization
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Customer success with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Explore how OpenShift Virtualization has helped customers easily manage and modernize their virtual machine workloads on their terms, at their pace.

Virtualization Migration Assessment

Gain a roadmap and timeline for migrating your VMs. Work with Red Hat Consulting to analyze your workloads, create a solution design to migrate your VMs efficiently, and determine next steps.

A high level guide to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a VMware admin

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Get started with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Learn how to use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to provision virtual machines, update configurations, manage storage resources, and more.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine overview

Get an overview of how OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a focused approach to VM management at a reduced price point.

FAQ

Explore details and common questions behind Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift, and learn how it’s different from OpenShift Virtualization Engine.

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Frequently asked questions

How is OpenShift Virtualization Engine different from Red Hat OpenShift?

OpenShift Virtualization Engine is a virtualization-focused edition of Red Hat OpenShift solely for managing and running VMs, unlike other Red Hat OpenShift editions such as OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Platform Plus, which integrate virtualization as part of a broader cloud-native application platform.

How is OpenShift Virtualization Engine different from OpenShift Virtualization?

OpenShift Virtualization Engine is a self-managed Red Hat OpenShift edition for managing and running VMs exclusively. It is tailored to customers who are replatforming virtual machines from other virtualization solutions and do not need to run containers and VMs in the same clusters. OpenShift Virtualization Engine provides a streamlined, dedicated solution to deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines with an aligned pricing model.

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that makes it possible to run VMs in an application-driven environment. Users can manage VMs alongside containerized workloads in a unified OpenShift environment with access to cloud-native application and delivery tools—ideal for hybrid cloud environments and application modernization use cases.

Does OpenShift Virtualization Engine support virtual machine migration?

Yes. OpenShift Virtualization Engine includes the migration toolkit for virtualization, which helps organizations migrate VMs from other virtualization environments while minimizing downtime and impacts to operations. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works with OpenShift Virtualization Engine to automate the migration of VMs at scale and the management of related infrastructure like networks and storage.

What kind of workloads can OpenShift Virtualization Engine run?

OpenShift Virtualization Engine is built to handle a wide range of workloads, from traditional enterprise applications and independent software vendor solutions (ISV) to high performance applications. It is suited to industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, where consistent VM performance is critical.

Does OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrate with other systems?

Yes. OpenShift Virtualization Engine integrates with your existing IT infrastructure to help you deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines. Integrating OpenShift Virtualization Engine with your IT infrastructure also positions your organization for future modernization, artificial intelligence (AI), and cloud-native initiatives.

Does OpenShift Virtualization Engine support containers?

No. OpenShift Virtualization Engine is tailored for customers who need an enterprise-grade solution for VMs without additional containerization or cloud-native features. To manage containers and VMs side by side, check out OpenShift Container Platform or OpenShift Platform Plus for extended capabilities.

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