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January 17, 2023

Keeping Virtual Machines Available by Allowing Nodes to Self Repair

There will always be a time where computing environments will encounter a failure. This could be a power outage or networking failure. In the extreme, it could be water or fire that causes the ...

John Herr

January 10, 2023

Node Selection and Affinity for Virtual Machines in OpenShift

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Chandler Wilkerson

October 4, 2022

How to Automatically Subscribe RHEL VMs with OpenShift Pipelines

Do you want to automatically subscribe your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs on OpenShift Virtualization to receive the latest updates? In this article you can learn how to do that with OpenShift ...

Felix Matouschek

August 26, 2022

Backup and Restore of Virtual Machines within OpenShift

Linus Torvalds once wrote, "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." This quote has not aged well for a number of ...

Chandler Wilkerson

August 2, 2022

How to Create Automatically Updating Boot Source Images

Today is a beautiful day. Just like most. I am in a good mood and have been thinking about ways to help the users of my OpenShift cluster. I think I have come up with a way to make all our lives a ...

John Herr

July 21, 2022

Resizing Storage within Virtual Machines in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Version 4

In Red Hat OpenShift version 4, resizing virtual machine disks created through the OpenShift Virtualization Operator is easier than ever. After expanding the persistent volume claim (PVC), the ...

William Bell

June 22, 2022

OpenShift Virtualization: Why Bring Your Virtual Machines to Kubernetes?

This blog is an update to this earlier guide. Open hybrid cloud is Red Hat's recommended strategy for architecting, developing, and operating a hybrid mix of applications, delivering a truly flexible ...

Sachin Mullick

June 3, 2022

How to Add Virtual Machines to a Service Mesh

OpenShift Virtualization is already established as a great tool for lift and shift migrations. Developers can prioritize rewriting or porting the individual components where they get the most reward ...

Chandler Wilkerson

May 17, 2022

Subscribing RHEL VMs in OpenShift Virtualization

OpenShift lets you develop, deploy, and manage your cloud-native applications efficiently. But many of us have stable and trusted applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines that we ...

Dan Kenigsberg

May 11, 2022

Enabling vGPU in a Single Node using OpenShift Virtualization

Many developers and organizations are shifting to containerized applications and serverless infrastructure, but there is still huge interest in developing and maintaining applications running as VMs. ...

Diego Alvarez

April 19, 2022

High Availability with Galera Cluster in OpenShift Virtualization

In this blog, I will show how to synchronize and replicate data in an application that uses the Galera cluster backend. Galera is a technology developed specifically for MariaDB that provides a ...

Almog Elfassy

March 24, 2022

What’s New in OpenShift Virtualization 4.10?

We are happy to announce a new Generally Available release of OpenShift Virtualization 4.10. This is an important milestone in our virtualization strategy, with key development from the upstream ...

Peter Lauterbach