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Migrating Azure VMs to OpenShift Virtualization on ARO

Migrating virtual machines (VMs) from Azure to OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is a powerful step toward unifying your traditional and cloud-native workloads on a single, enterprise-grade application platform. This guide will walk you through the process, which is designed to be surprisingly straightforward despite current technical constraints. At present, Azure primarily supports exporting VM disks in the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. While Red Hat’s Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) is rapidly evolving to formally support this scenario, we will detail a practical method to bridge this gap and get your VMs running on ARO quickly.

Deploying OpenShift Virtualization on ARO

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of OpenShift that allows you to run virtual machines alongside your containers. This is useful for running legacy applications that can’t be containerized, or for running applications that require special hardware or software that isn’t available in a container. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to deploy OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). I’ll show you how to create an ARO cluster, deploy the OpenShift Virtualization operator, and create a virtual machine.

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