Planning and prerequisites for your virtualized clusters

The prerequisites before you create Virtualization clusters.

From the Red Hat® Operator Catalog, deploy Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization 4.16.0 or higher.
It is a software component of OpenShift Container Platform to run and manage virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads. To validate the installation, see Red Hat Documentation.

Create hyperconverged CR based on the following example:


apiVersion: hco.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
kind: HyperConverged
metadata:
 annotations:
  deployOVS: 'false'
 name: kubevirt-hyperconverged
 namespace: openshift-cnv
spec: {}

Wait for five to ten minutes for the CR status to be available and the OpenShift Container Platform console to refresh and show up a new Virtualization menu.