Red Hat · Migrations and modernization · a YoctoIT presentation

Towards OpenShift

The hybrid application platform where VMs, containers and AI live together. And the path to get there, without stopping the business.

FOCUS · MIGRATION FROM VMWARE AND APP MODERNIZATION With the official Red Hat migration toolkits and a wave-based method
July 2026 · YoctoIT presentation material for customers and partners
01 · The context

The right moment to rethink the VMs

Price hikes and uncertainty in virtualization licensing, containers growing, AI demanding a modern platform: three different pushes, one same destination.

zero
rewrites to bring a VM onto OpenShift: it migrates as it is, disks and configurations included
700%+
the ROI of the Red Hat services and support for OpenShift estimated by the Forrester TEI study commissioned by Red Hat
90%
of the Fortune 500 companies rely on Red Hat (source: Red Hat)

Why now

The cost of traditional virtualization is no longer a given: it's a choice
The VMs don't disappear, but the new workloads are born in containers
AI and its runtimes demand a cloud-native platform
Managing two separate worlds costs double, every day
02 · The platform

One platform for VMs, containers and AI

Red Hat OpenShift is the hybrid application platform built on Kubernetes: a single workbench to migrate, run and manage traditional and modern workloads, anywhere.

Migra

the VMs move with the official toolkits, the apps modernize when it pays off

Run

VMs, containers and AI workloads side by side, with the same tools

Manage

a single operational cycle: network, storage, security and observability for everything

Dev and ops experiencea single console, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines
Virtual machinesOpenShift Virtualization
Containers and AIKubernetes, serverless, GPUs
Platform servicesnetwork, storage, security, observability, backup and DR
Infrastructurebare metal, public clouds, IBM Power and IBM Z
A single platform, wherever you need it
03 · Virtualization

Your VMs, just as they are

The VMs stay VMs

no rewrites: they migrate with their disks, their networks and their habits

Next to the containers

the same platform and the same tools for network, storage, backup and disaster recovery

Virtualization only? There's the Engine

OpenShift Virtualization Engine: the edition dedicated to virtual workloads only (source: Red Hat)

What changes for the operators

  • A single console and API · for VMs and containers: a single place to look
  • Live migration · of the VMs between the nodes, integrated snapshots and backups
  • Ansible automation · to migrate and operate at scale (source: Red Hat)
  • Reusable teams · the virtualization skills stay valid: the base changes, not the trade
04 · The migration

From VMware to OpenShift, in waves

The Migration Toolkit for Virtualization makes the migration a repeatable process, not a leap into the void.

STEP 1

Inventory

discovery of the vSphere environment: VMs, networks, storage and dependencies, with the starting assessment

STEP 2

A wave plan

who migrates first and who later: priorities by risk and dependencies, network and storage mappings ready

STEP 3

Migration

warm or cold: replicas while the VMs work, cutovers in short windows, a rollback always planned

STEP 4

Validation

tests, tuning and the move into production: wave after wave, with the business always on

Worth knowing: the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization is included and with Ansible the migrations scale (source: Red Hat)
05 · The applications

Modernizing without dogmas

The Migration Toolkit for Applications analyzes the code and tells the truth: what's worth containerizing, what to rewrite, what to leave alone.

Automatic analysis

the toolkit examines the applications and estimates the migration effort: the surprises emerge before, not during

Each app its own road

rehost, replatform or refactor: you containerize where it brings value, not on principle

Value right away

you start from the apps that pay off the most: the rest follows in the next waves, without rush

Modernization isn't a religion: it's a portfolio of decisions, one per application.

06 · Day 2

The day after: unified operations

GitOps and pipelines

repeatable, traced deployments: the environment gets described in code and rebuilt identically

Integrated security and policies

access control, platform policies and team segregation, on the same plane

Observability included

the platform's metrics, logs and alerts ready from day one, integrable with Instana and our NOC

The migration is an event. Operations are forever: the platform must help you every day.

07 · IBM Power focus

OpenShift also runs on IBM Power

Why it makes sense

  • Native on ppc64le · OpenShift is supported on the Power platform
  • Close to the core data · next to IBM i and AIX, where the ERP lives
  • Consolidation · containers and VMs on the hardware you already own and we already watch
  • The same platform · an identical experience across Power, x86 and cloud

Why it matters

Modernizing doesn't necessarily mean changing the hardware: bringing the application platform next to the core data cuts latencies, copies and complexity. And the IBM solutions in our lineup, from Concert on down, already run on OpenShift.

Our specialty

YoctoIT lives on IBM Power: designing the OpenShift cluster on Power, or next to it, is the natural bridge between your ERP and the modern platform.

08 · Scenarios

Three scenarios, a single landing

Escaping the price hikes

the VMs migrate with the toolkit, the TCO comes back under control: virtualization stops being a worry

Selective modernization

the strategic apps move into containers with modern pipelines, the rest keeps running as VMs

The base for AI

the AI workloads and IBM's watsonx platform have OpenShift in the engine: getting there early pays off

You can start from any of the three: the platform is the same and the work done adds up.

09 · The chain

Red Hat is IBM: the chain is one

Red Hat Ansible

automation of the migrations and of day 2: playbooks instead of sleepless nights

IBM Concert

the platform's resilience and compliance, with its own deployment on OpenShift

IBM Instana

full-stack observability of clusters, VMs and applications, inside our NOC

IBM Power and Z

the enterprise iron where OpenShift runs natively, next to the data that matters

10 · YoctoIT

Var Group's IBM competence center

YoctoIT is a company of the Var Group, services division. We do migrations with the method of those who keep other people's systems on for a living: in waves, with rollbacks, without surprises.

60+
IBM certifications in the team
200+
active certifications across 16 vendors
H24
NOC active 7 days a week, 365 days a year
99,9%
SLAs met
3.543
hosts monitored by our NOC
100+
active customers, 200+ projects in 3 years

Certified quality: ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 27001:2022 · ISO/IEC 27017 and 27018 · IBM Fusion Certified Partner

“IT that never stops”

11 · How we start

From the assessment to the waves

01

Assessment

An inventory of VMs and applications, dependencies, TCO and the wave plan.

02

Pilot

A cluster and a first wave of VMs or an app: everything gets measured, before and after.

03

Migration waves

Warm migrations, cutovers in short windows, a rollback always ready.

04

24/7 management

The cluster lives in the YoctoIT Managed Services: patches, capacity and monitoring.

The first wave in production is the best answer to every doubt: small, measured, reversible.