The New Features in OpenShift Virtualization 4.16
Here in this blog, we are going to learn the new features of OpenShift virtualization 4.16.
You may modernize your operations by migrating your current workloads, which are based on virtual machines (VMs), to Red Hat OpenShift with OpenShift Virtualization. You may take advantage of the speed and convenience of a fully functional modern application platform while keeping your present virtualization investments. Here are some of the new features in OpenShift Virtualization 4.16.
scalable and flexible for jobs with high demand
We’ve enabled an extra set of features to meet the strictest requirements when customers migrate their more complex virtual machine workloads to OpenShift. Among them are:
- Workloads in virtual machines (VMs) that cannot tolerate any interruptions can now be vertically scaled to dynamically handle demand spikes and seasonal increases thanks to CPU hotplugs.
- Workload placement is now more manageable since you may specify node and affinity criteria when the virtual machine is in use.
- It is now possible to execute specialized workloads that require predictable performance and low latency on real-time virtual machines (VMs).
- The boot methods for Microsoft Windows 10 virtual machines are now TPM and UEFI.
- Headless services can now be used to access virtual machines on a dependable network endpoint.
Moreover, one of the most coveted features on the platform is the ability to oversubscribe virtual resources like RAM. A tech preview of safe memory overcommit, which permits swapping for Kubernetes worker nodes, is included in this release. Try it on your non-production workloads; we hope you appreciate it and would love to hear your comments.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation can assist you in protecting the most critical workloads in your company.
Administrators with extensive experience know that you need to have a plan in place in case of an emergency, like a power outage, network failure, or natural disaster. Every business should have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place to help guarantee that there are as few operational disruptions and data losses as possible. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and OpenShift Data Foundation can assist you in achieving minimal recovery times (RTO) and zero data loss (RPO) for metro disaster recovery. These solutions are now generally available for all virtual machine workload types.
If your business continuity requirements are less strict, you also have the option of employing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and OpenShift Data Foundation for regional disaster recovery. GitOps is used for the deployment and management of virtual machines (VMs), and this technology preview is available for them. Please attempt non-production workloads and report back to us on your findings.
Organize your workload more broadly.
The updated dashboard for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management Observability provides detailed information for each cluster where the OpenShift Virtualization operator is deployed. The operator’s health and the status of any OpenShift Virtualization alerts are shown on the dashboard. It also shows the number of virtual machines running at any one time as well as the operator version of each cluster. The dashboard shows warnings related to the operator’s health in addition to all OpenShift Virtualization notifications, including ones that don’t affect their health. The operator health alerts, alert severity, alert impact on health, and cluster name are filters that can be applied to the dashboard.
This also functions in larger environments, where the global hub of your ACM-Hub cluster provides global search capability. Lastly, search results can be exported as CSV files so that you can utilize them in programs other than Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
Quicker migration with MTV 2.6
You may expedite your infrastructure modernization journey by transferring production workloads between Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform as easily as possible with the help of our comprehensive and user-friendly VM migration toolkit software. There are various notable features in the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.6 (MTV).
- With standalone ESXi, workloads for virtual machines can now be transferred directly without the use of VMware Center.
- Migration over a secure connection: You can now designate a CA-signed certificate to be utilized for authenticating the server running ESXi or vCenter, depending on the specified SDK endpoint of the vSphere provider.
Advice from professionals
Through our experience working with clients who have a variety of infrastructure architectures, we have developed concepts, suggestions, and best practices related to OpenShift configuration to deploy virtual machines. Our experts wrote the OpenShift Virtualization Reference Implementation Guide. Think of it as an assortment of personal suggestions for small, medium, and large projects.
You have a wealth of knowledge and experience that can be applied to the design and architecture of your own scalable infrastructures by combining our history of virtualization with platform improvements.
To see how our Red Hat Performance and Scale team maximizes hardware, have a peek at our newest learning path, How to build and scale 6,000 virtual machines in 7 hours using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Excellent cooperation with ecosystem partners
We are continuing to experience a lot of success with our current ecosystem partners who have added support for OpenShift Virtualization. Find out more about our OpenShift partners that have subjected virtual machines to stringent testing.
Among our other data protection partners are Trilio, Storware, Kasten by Veeam, and Portworx, with which we have a close engineering cooperation. If it eases your mind, you can also confirm the deployment of your virtual machine storage using the same KubeVirt storage inspection that our storage partners use to confirm the CSI operators of other storage providers.
