Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a modern platform to run and deploy new and existing virtual machine workloads.
What is Virtualization?
Virtualization lets you create multiple simulated environments or resources from a single, physical hardware system. Using a hypervisor which is software that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs) to connect to the hardware and split the single system into separate and distinct VMs. Resources like CPU, storage, and memory can be pooled and relocated. Guests get access to the resources they need via operators.
Virtualization fundamentals
Overview
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an operator included with all Red Hat OpenShift subscriptions and available out of the box. It lets you run and manage virtual machine (VM) workloads alongside container workloads. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a high-performing, secure, and stable operating system that can easily run virtual environments. If you need to implement virtualization, RHEL's reliability makes it a great choice.
OpenShift Virtualization, which uses the open-source projects Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Kubevirt, lets you run VMs on the kernel of worker nodes and run via KVM as a standard VM that is managed and controlled by containers. Each VM has its own control plane that runs as a pod on OpenShift. Access controls (via ports), additional storage and start/stop/restart/delete are all executed and controlled by the virt-launcher Pod. The control plane controls access to the VM as a set of services on the SDN in OpenShift just like other workloads.
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