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

Learn how to navigate features in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization coming from a VMware vSphere background.

Learn how to navigate features in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization coming from a VMware vSphere background.

Daily tasks to undertake in Red Hat OpenShift as a VMware admin

30 mins

As you begin to get used to Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization in your day-to-day workflow, there may be some repetitive tasks to relearn. This resource includes guided, interactive walkthroughs of daily Virtual machine (VM) admin tasks in OpenShift Virtualization. These visual demonstrations capture the UI, CLI, or both, so you can see exactly how traditional virtualization tasks can be done in OpenShift.

What will you learn?

  • How to perform key daily tasks you ma within OpenShift Virtualization, as they may compare to a VMware vSphere environment

What do you need before starting?

  • VMware vSphere 8.0 or higher (as referenced in this path)
  • Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 (as referenced in this path) 

Infrastructure Management Tasks

This section offers interactive demonstrations of daily VM admin tasks in OpenShift Virtualization.

TaskDemos
Install, configure, and manage Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
Perform regular maintenance and upgrades of the virtualization environmentNode Maintenance placing in maintenance
Manage virtual machines (VMs), templates, snapshots, and resource allocationOpenShift-CY24Q3-Manage and monitor VMs on OpenShift with ACM

 

Backup and disaster recovery tasks

TaskDemos
Implement and manage VM backup and recovery solutions 
Develop and test disaster recovery plans for virtualized environmentsRegional Disaster Recovery for VMs using RHACM and ODF

Security and compliance tasks

Automation and scripting tasks

TaskDemos
Automate tasks using OpenShift CLI, PowerShell, or PythonInventory Management of OpenShift VMs with AAP
Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) where applicable

Manage and monitor VMs with AAP

Create Virtual Machines in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS using GitOps

Congratulations! You have successfully walked through daily tasks within OpenShift as they may compare to VMware vSphere. 

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This learning path is for operations teams or system administrators
Developers may want to check out Migrate virtual applications in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on developers.redhat.com.

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