OpenShift Virtualization is an OpenShift Container Platform add-on that lets you run and manage virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads.

To ALLOW virtualization TASKS, OpenShift Virtualization adds new objects to your OpenShift Container Platform cluster using KUBERNETES custom resources. These responsibilities include:

• CREATING and controlling virtual machines in Linux and Windows
• Using many consoles and CLI tools to connect to virtual machines
• Existing virtual machines can be imported and cloned.
• Managing virtual machines' network interface controllers and storage disks.
• Virtual machines are being moved between nodes in real-time.

Along with the OpenShift Container Platform cluster containers and INFRASTRUCTURE, an updated web console provides a graphical portal for managing these virtualized resources.

OpenShift Virtualization has been tested with OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) and is optimised for use with OCS capabilities. You can utilise OVN-Kubernetes, OpenShift SDN, or one of the other certified default Container Network Interface (CNI) network providers specified in Certified OpenShift CNI Plug-ins with OpenShift Virtualization.