Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Hands-On Workshop

On April 20, 2026, the ACROPOLIS INTEGRO team delivered the OpenShift Virtualization Roadshow — a one-day hands-on workshop for virtualization admins, DevOps engineers, and architects who want to master VM management on Red Hat’s modern Kubernetes platform.

The format was designed not as a product pitch but as a working lab — with a real environment deployed and step-by-step drills through the scenarios teams face when moving to OpenShift Virtualization.

What we covered in one day

• How to unify virtual machines and containers in a single OpenShift infrastructure
• Creating, migrating, and managing VMs in OpenShift Virtualization
• Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) — the tool for migrating VMs from VMware
• Working with VM templates, networks, and storage
• VM backup and recovery practices in OpenShift
• Day-2 operations and publishing applications running inside VMs

Format

The workshop combines theory and hands-on practice — participants apply what they learn in a live environment immediately. A step-by-step flow: architecture → deployment → migration → operations. Seats were limited, which let us keep an individual pace and answer questions as they came up.

Who benefits from this training

• Virtualization admins evaluating alternatives to VMware
• DevOps engineers consolidating VM and container workloads
• Infrastructure architects designing hybrid Kubernetes environments
• Teams planning workload migration to OpenShift

Outcome for participants

Each participant gained hands-on experience with OpenShift Virtualization in a real environment and a clear picture of how to design a migration of their own VM estate. For continued self-study — the official OpenShift Virtualization Roadshow guide.

Next steps

A pilot rollout of OpenShift Virtualization in customer infrastructures and detailed migration planning from VMware via MTV. Further sessions are planned on Day-2 operations, backup, and disaster recovery for VMs in OpenShift.

Need training for your team?

ACROPOLIS INTEGRO delivers technical training across a portfolio of key vendors: Red Hat, Nutanix, SUSE, Lenovo, Check Point, NVIDIA, Commvault, Cloudflare. The format adapts to the team’s goals — from introductory sessions for management to deep technical intensives for engineers.

Reach out — we’ll align the format and dates with your schedule.