Red Hat OpenShift virtualization

The Red Hat® OpenShift® provides a platform for running virtual machines and container workloads side by side. It relieves you of maintaining separate infrastructure, platforms, tools, skills, and teams for virtual machines and containers. It also enables virtual machines to be managed with the same modern practices that are used for containers.

IBM Storage Fusion provides storage, encryption at rest, and resiliency to run virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift.

The RWX (ReadWriteMany) mode is crucial because it enables Live Migration for virtual machines in Red Hat OpenShift. With RWX block storage support, virtual machines can seamlessly move between nodes within the OpenShift cluster during Live Migration while maintaining the performance benefits of the block storage.

Virtual machine resiliency can be provided in the following ways:

• High availability is achieved by using three-way replication to mirror data across availability zones. It allows workloads to continue to run even when storage infrastructure fails.
• RWX storage enables Live Migration, which allows virtual machines to be moved between nodes in the cluster.
• Backup capabilities protect virtual machines from data loss or corruption, enabling them to be restored to an earlier point in time. You can restore the virtual machines to an alternative cluster to recover from a complete cluster failure or practice recovery.
• When site outage occurs, use Metro-DR or Regional disaster recovery to recover virtual machines.