General availability on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE introduces the ability to consolidate both virtual machines and containers on a unified, high-performance platform
Today, IBM is announcing the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on IBM Z and LinuxONE. This new offering can enable enterprises to consolidate both virtual machines (VMs) and containers onto a single, security-focused, high-performance platform, designed to streamline operations and reduce costs. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization empowers architects to integrate both virtualized and containerized applications from the OperatorHub, creating a unified platform. This consolidates all workloads in a single environment and streamlines workflows by handling all applications.
Built on the industry-leading security and scalability of IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, this offering gives clients flexibility to support traditional virtualized and containerized workloads, all while maintaining compliance and performance standards.
Unlike more siloed virtualization solutions, this offering integrates containerized and virtualized workloads alongside existing IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE applications and data. This co-location is designed to simplify operations by bringing modern applications closer to critical data, reducing latency and network overhead.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, available as a feature in Red Hat OpenShift, is built to enable organizations to run VMs on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE in a more modern and efficient way and side-by-side with containers, providing organizations with a bridge between virtualized applications and next-gen, cloud-native applications. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, organizations have a clear path to modernize or gradually containerize applications when they are ready.
How Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Propels IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
Modernized Infrastructure
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is designed to use the modern application development processes and tools in Red Hat OpenShift to build VM-based applications and prepare for future investments in cloud-native development.
Enterprises can run traditional virtualized applications as VMs while deploying new microservices as containers, designed to optimize resource utilization on the scalable architecture used in IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. This approach maximizes existing IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE investments by running VMs and containers on the same hardware.
Centralized Management
Red Hat OpenShift simplifies operations by allowing VMs, containers and serverless workloads to all be run on the same platform.
Simplified Developer Experience
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is designed to use the modern application development processes and tools in Red Hat OpenShift to expedite the modernization of VM-based for future cloud-native development. With this update, developers can now focus on delivering the applications while Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization takes care of VM based deployment.
Developers can use familiar Kubernetes and OpenShift tools (e.g., oc command, kubectl, OpenShift Console) to manage both VMs and containers. They can leverage the OpenShift integrated CI/CD framework (Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines) for automating the management of the VMs and containers.
Join us in September 2025 for a webinar about Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE and its new capabilities and features.
Register for the webcast here.
A replay will be available on demand after the event.
Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization at https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/virtualization.