Modernise, De Risk and Scale Beyond VMware with Red Hat OpenShift Migration
Accelerate Your VMware to OpenShift Migration by Up to 40% with a Phased, Low Risk Approach
Move away from VMware with a low-risk, phased VMware to OpenShift migration that enables a cloud-agnostic, future-ready platform without disrupting business continuity.
Accelerate your VMware to OpenShift migration with a structured, end-to-end approach designed for success. Our Persistent’s VMware migration services begin with a comprehensive readiness assessment and adoption roadmap, followed by AI-led workload discovery and analysis to identify the right candidates for migration.
We then support OpenShift architecture design, deployment and modernization to ensure a seamless transition.
Additionally, we enable ISV onboarding and certification, helping you publish solutions on the Red Hat Marketplace, unlocking new opportunities for scalability, visibility and growth in a cloud-native ecosystem.
Why VMware Customers Are Re-thinking Their Platform Strategy:
Enterprises are accelerating their VMware exit strategy due to:
- Rising virtualization costs and vendor lock-in
- Limited flexibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Growing pressure to modernize applications while supporting legacy workloads
- Need for a platform that supports today’s VMs and tomorrow’s cloud-native apps
Three Phase Migration Approach
A structured, phased VMware to OpenShift migration approach to ensure business continuity, governed transformation and long term value.
Phase 1
Discovery and Assessment
Audit existing VMware environment and define a value-led roadmap
Phase 2
Migrate and Modernize
Establish OpenShift as the strategic platform and migrate priority workloads
Phase 3
Optimize and Scale
Maximize value, optimize costs and scale adoption across the enterprise
Strategic Options for VMWare Customers
| Migration to Alternative Hypervisors | Migrate to Public Cloud Platforms | Migrate to Future Proof Platform – Red Hat OpenShift | |
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| Actions | Move workloads to alternative hypervisors such as Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V | Shift workloads to native public cloud services like AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform | Transition from VMs to containers using Kubernetes or Hybrid mode running VM and container side by side |
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| Limitations | Still VM centric with migration effort and tooling complexity | Requires re-architecting for full benefits, risk of cloud lock-in | Requires platform engineering expertise to leverage full value of transformation |
Red Hat OpenShift uniquely supports VMware VM migration and Kubernetes‑native modernization on a common hybrid‑cloud foundation. Unlike hypervisor only alternatives, OpenShift supports VMs and containers side by side, allowing enterprises to modernize at their own pace while controlling risk and cost.
Persistent brings deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift migration, cloud modernization and platform engineering, engaging clients across advisory, migration planning, implementation and Day 2 operations to ensure a successful VMware exit and sustained long term value.
Our partnership at a glance
2,000+
Containerization and Kubernetes trained employees
80+
Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift accreditations with objective to reach 100+ by 2021
700+
Containerized open source packages
25+
Certified operators that Persistent has developed
20+
Projects containerizing workloads on AWS, Azure, GCP, & IBM Cloud
Comprehensive Capabilities to Support Enterprise Transformation
Cloud Migration & Modernization
- VMware workload migration to OpenShift based hybrid and multi cloud platforms
- Application re platforming, re architecture and cloud modernization
- Cloud agnostic delivery across on premises, AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Enterprise OpenShift platform design and operations
- Hybrid and multi cloud infrastructure engineering
- Automation, CI/CD, GitOps and platform reliability engineering
Security & DevSecOps
- Secure by design OpenShift platforms
- DevSecOps integration across CI/CD pipelines
- Identity, access, compliance and platform security best practices
Data Engineering & Analytics
- Modern data platforms built on OpenShift
- Data ingestion, processing, governance and analytics
- Scalable architectures to support real time and batch workloads
Why Persistent?
Domain Leadership
2,000+ Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift trained engineers, backed by a dedicated Red Hat Center of Excellence, delivering enterprise scale OpenShift transformations.
Technology Insights
Structured OpenShift transformation playbooks – from readiness assessment and VMware exit strategy to phased migration, modernization and Day‑2 operations.
AI‑led automation and migration assets
VM and workload discovery, migration planning and execution and Day-2 operation.
Robust Partner Ecosystem
Deep Red Hat and IBM partnership powering product‑scale OpenShift migrations and modernization across multiple IBM and ISV products.
FAQs
Enterprises are choosing Red Hat OpenShift to reduce VMware dependency while enabling long term platform modernisation, not just hypervisor replacement. OpenShift provides a cloud agnostic, future ready platform that supports both existing VMware VMs and cloud native containerised applications on a single foundation.
Unlike alternative hypervisors that remain VM centric, OpenShift enables AI, data, and digital platform modernisation while avoiding vendor lock in, allowing enterprises to move beyond virtualisation toward sustained business transformation.
Persistent conducts comprehensive workload discovery and analysis to identify optimal migration candidates based on technical dependencies, performance requirements and business criticality. Our structured assessment evaluates application architecture, infrastructure dependencies and modernization readiness. This approach ensures the right workloads migrate at the right time with minimal risk.
OpenShift delivers cloud-agnostic architecture that prevents vendor lock-in while supporting hybrid and multi-cloud deployments across on-premises, AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud environments. The platform enables seamless integration of legacy VMs alongside modern containerized applications, supporting AI-led innovation and digital transformation. This flexibility allows enterprises to modernize at their own pace without architectural constraints.
Persistent employs a low-risk, phased VMware to OpenShift migration approach that maintains operational stability throughout the transition. Our end-to-end methodology includes comprehensive readiness assessment, careful workload sequencing and continuous validation at each migration stage. This structured execution minimizes disruption while enabling controlled exit from VMware infrastructure.
Persistent maintains 2,000+ Kubernetes and OpenShift-trained engineers supported by a dedicated Red Hat Center of Excellence. This deep certified talent pool at scale enables enterprise-grade platform design, migration execution and ongoing operations. Our domain leadership ensures organizations access proven expertise throughout their transformation journey.
Persistent supports ISV onboarding and certification processes to enable solution publishing on the Red Hat Marketplace. This service unlocks new opportunities for scalability, visibility and growth within the cloud-native ecosystem. Our guidance helps ISVs navigate certification requirements and optimize their marketplace presence.
Persistent leverages proprietary AI-led automation assets for VM discovery, workload analysis, migration planning and execution. These tools accelerate assessment timelines, improve migration accuracy and streamline Day-2 operations. Our automation capabilities reduce manual effort while enhancing overall migration quality and speed.
Persistent helps manage operations for virtualized environments and workloads migrated to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (RH OVP) by delivering end-to-end observability, continuous performance monitoring, resource optimization, and reliable, cost-efficient operations. We also enable ISV onboarding and certification to accelerate ecosystem readi-ness and drive scalable cloud-native growth.
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