Is anyone leveraging Red Hat OpenShift to replace VMware as a hypervisor offering, and if so, any migration lessons learned to share for those going down that path?

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Chief Information Technology Officer in IT Services4 days ago

Some organizations are moving from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift, especially with the shift toward containerization. But OpenShift isn’t a direct hypervisor replacement—it’s a platform shift from VMs to Kubernetes-managed containers.

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Enterprise Architect8 days ago

We have licensed OpenShift largely for their AI operator along with a few other operators. We are considering using it to orchestrate some portion of our current VMWare workloads but have just begun reviewing our workload fit-for-purpose.  We are fairly certain it could not support all our workloads.  Would welcome keeping up on the topic.

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