In a previous post I outlined the common problems organizations face across both their traditional IT environments (sometimes called mode-1) and new emerging IT environments (sometimes called mode-2). These included:
- Accelerating the delivery of services in traditional IT Environments to satisfy customer demands
- Optimizing traditional IT environments to increase efficiency
- Creating new development and operations practices for Emerging IT environment to innovate faster
- Delivering public-cloud like infrastructure that is scalable and programmable
I’d like to show you a quick demonstration of how Red Hat is helping optimize traditional IT environments. There are many ways in which Red Hat does this, from discovering and right sizing virtual machines to free up space in virtual datacenters, to creating a standard operating environment across heterogeneous environments to reduce complexity. In this demonstration, however, I’ll focus on how Red Hat enables organizations to migrate workloads to their ideal platform. In the demonstration video below you’ll see how using tools found in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform in conjunction with automation and orchestration from Red Hat CloudForms it’s possible to migrate virtual machines in an automated fashion from VMware vSphere to either RHEV or Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Keep in mind, these tools assist with the migration process, but need to be designed for your specific environment. That said, they can greatly reduce the time and effort required to move large amounts of virtual machines once designed.
I hope you found this demonstration useful!
P.S. – If you are a Red Hatter or a Red Hat Partner, this demonstration is available in the Red Hat Product Demo System and is named “Red Hat Cloud Suite Migration Demonstration”.