Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization allows users to run virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers on the same platform. Learn how to create, deploy, and migrate different VMs on a single platform. 

This learning path is for operations teams or system administrators

Developers may want to check out Developing applications on OpenShift on developers.redhat.com.

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Next steps for your work with OpenShift Virtualization

5 mins

Congratulations! You have successfully learned how to create and migrate virtual machines (VMs) on Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization. Now you can create new machines for your environment or incorporate existing ones without adversely affecting their source environment.

After completing this tutorial, you now have:

  • Bare metal nodes on Red Hat OpenShift
  • A configured OpenShift Virtualization instance
  • Understanding of creating new VMs on OpenShift Virtualization
  • Experience migrating existing VMs to OpenShift Virtualization

What comes next?

Now that you are familiar with running virtual machines on OpenShift Virtualization, you can look into Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS-specific versions of this learning path, or discover new ways to automate and streamline VMs with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform.

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