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A high-level guide to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a VMware admin

Learning path 8 resources 1 hr Published on April 8, 2025

Learn how to navigate features in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization coming from a VMware vSphere background.

Learn how to navigate features in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization coming from a VMware vSphere background.

Virtual machine components using Red Hat OpenShift with VMware vSphere concepts

5 mins

This resource will help you better understand the individual components and settings included within virtual machines (VM) as it relates to both Red Hat® OpenShift® and VMware vSphere. As virtual machine components in OpenShift can be found within the virtual machines themselves, there is no menu mapping chart for this comparison portion.

What will you learn?

  • How OpenShift menu and features map to ones you may know from VMware

What do you need before starting?

  • VMware vSphere 8.0 or higher (as referenced in this path)
  • Red Hat OpenShift (as referenced in this path)

Virtual machine feature mapping chart

This section addresses commonly used VM functions in VMware and how they map to OpenShift.

Feature VMware OpenShift

Guest agent

VMware Tools
QEMU guest agent
VM dumping Right Click VM > Snapshot and check the box Snapshot Virtual machine memory virtctl
VM cloning Yes Yes
Tags and custom attributes Tags and custom attributes Labels
VM NIC E1000, e1000e, VMXNET 2 (Enhanced), VMXNET 3,Flexible, Vlance, PVRDMA, SR-IOV passthrough VirtIO or e1000e
SCSI Controller LSI Logic SAS, BUSLogic Parallel, LSI Logic SAS, VMware Paravirtual SCSI SCSI, VirtIO, SATA

Congratulations! You have successfully walked through common features and options within OpenShift as they may compare to VMware vSphere.

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This learning path is for operations teams or system administrators
Developers may want to check out Migrate virtual applications in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on developers.redhat.com.

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