Virtual machine service

Provision and manage virtual machines on a Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster with the virtual machine service.

Tech preview The virtual machine service is in preview and does not include guidance for administrative and non-administrative access capabilities.

Capabilities

You can provision virtual machines in IBM® Sovereign Core with the virtual machine service. The service provides access to the Red Hat® OpenShift® console to handle the complete lifecycle of virtual machines on a cluster, including creation, configuration, and deprovisioning.

Usage tracking

Service usage is tracked based on the amount of CPU and memory used by virtual machines.

You can monitor your resource usage by using the IBM Sovereign Core API. For details, see Metering in IBM Sovereign Core.

Quick links

To get started, see the following resources:

To add the service to the system catalog, see Installing virtual machine service.
To work with the service, see Managing virtual machines.
To find solutions to problems, see Troubleshooting virtual machine service.