Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization
Product overview
Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization is a centralized tool that simplifies the management of virtual machines (VMs) deployed to Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization Engine clusters as well as the clusters themselves.
Organizations adopting OpenShift Virtualization Engine often have requirements to manage distributed infrastructures, understand fleet inventory and health, optimize performance, adhere to governance policies, and reduce operational expenses. Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization addresses these requirements by providing a centralized platform for provisioning, monitoring, and decommissioning VMs across multiple OpenShift Virtualization Engine clusters.
This solution is a version of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. The subscription entitlement for Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization only allows for the management of OpenShift Virtualization Engine clusters and VMs, and is for organizations that want to manage VMs exclusively.
Key benefits
Reduce operational costs by streamlining virtualization management processes.
Minimize operational risk through automated policy enforcement and real-time monitoring.
Adhere to established governance policies, to create consistency across virtualized environments.
Optimize performance for geographically dispersed applications.
Features and benefits
Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization provides the consistency and governance organizations need to make informed decisions about their virtualization environments. By using Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization, organizations can minimize operational risk through a holistic view of their virtualized workloads and infrastructure, ensuring that they adhere to established policies.
Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization also allows organizations to optimize their operations by providing real-time monitoring, alerting, and automated policy enforcement. This results in increased operational efficiency, as administrators can focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual, time-consuming tasks. Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization empowers enterprises to deploy and manage VMs and OpenShift Virtualization Engine clusters.
By transforming their virtualization management practices, organizations can unlock significant value by:
- Reducing operational costs by streamlining virtualization management processes.
- Minimizing operational risk through automated policy enforcement and real-time monitoring.
- Adhering to established governance policies that provide consistency across their virtualized environments.
- Optimizing performance for geographically dispersed applications.
Multicluster observability for fleet health and optimization
Deliver administrators an enhanced experience quickly with ready-to-use multicluster dashboards for virtual machines. The centralized management tools can store long-term historical data and provide an overview of fleet health and optimization.
Table 1. Features and benefits
Feature | Benefit |
Manage VMs directly from a centralized console | Administrators benefit from increased operational efficiency and reduced context switching. |
Dynamic search | Search and see all VMs in a fleet to reduce complexity. |
Multicluster observability including ready-to-use dashboards | Allows users to see the health of VMs and virtualization infrastructure from centrally collected alerts and make optimization plans. |
VM-specific actions | Manage VMs with intuitive controls to start, stop, restart, pause, unpause, and launch, thanks to the advanced search capabilities in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization. |
Manage applications and VMs with ApplicationSets | Deploy VM applications from code repositories to ease deployment and streamline management at scale. |
| Control plane decoupled from data plane | Reduce costs and improve efficiency by hosting multiple control planes on a single Red Hat OpenShift cluster. |
Only manages OpenShift Virtualization Engine | Pay only for the capabilities you need. Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization is a focused subscription that covers VM management capabilities. |
Resource requirements
- 3 nodes, 6 vCPU, and 16GB RAM
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Do you need to manage containers, VMs, and Kubernetes clusters? Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes manages Red Hat OpenShift and other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-compliant Kubernetes platforms. Learn more about deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across multiple clusters at scale.
