DO316LS: Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

This course teaches the essential skills required to create and manage virtual machines (VM) on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator.

This course teaches the essential skills required to deploy, manage, and operate virtual machines (VMs) within OpenShift environments using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator.

Participants learn how to manage virtualized workloads alongside containerized applications on a unified platform, enabling more efficient operations and modernization of existing infrastructure.

The course combines practical exercises with real-world scenarios, covering VM lifecycle management, networking, storage, and high availability in OpenShift environments.

 Important Information about Course Delivery and Enrollment

Please note that as of January 1, 2026, Red Hat is introducing its Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS) course model, a flexible subscription solution that replaces their previous direct enrollment for virtual course dates.

When purchasing this product, you will receive access to an RHLS at course level, giving you the flexibility to enroll in the course date that suits you best, directly through your Red Hat training portal.

The RHLS subscription includes the following:

• One live, instructor-led course
• 12 months of access to the associated e-learning materials
• Up to 100 hours of additional lab access
• One exam voucher, including one retake if needed

Please use the e-learning order form on the right-hand side to purchase the course. You can read more about the Red Hat Learning Subscription model here.

Note that the RHLS solution is only available upon purchase of individual virtual classes. 

If you are attending a physical classroom training or a private, company-specific training, the following is included:

• Official Red Hat classroom training led by certified experts with extensive Red Hat product experience
• 45-day access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment
• Official digital Red Hat course materials

Course goals

By attending this training you will learn to deploy and manage virtualized workloads on OpenShift and manage these workloads using both traditional ways, such as SSH and Ansible, and also modern DevOps practices, such as GitOps and CI/CD.

This course provides:

• Skills required to create, access, and manage VMs on OpenShift clusters
• Skills required to control usage and access of cpu, memory, storage, and networking resources from VMs using the same Kubernetes features that would also control usage and access to these resources for containers.
• Sample architectures to manage High Availability (HA) of VMs using standard Kubernetes features and extensions from OpenShift Virtualization.
• Strategies to connect VMs on OpenShift to data center services outside of their OpenShift cluster, such as storage and databases
• Strategies to migrate VMs from compatible hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization by using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization operator

Audience 

This course is aimed at the following audiences:

• Virtual Machine Administrators who want to virtualize workloads from traditional Hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
• Platform Engineers, Cloud Administrators, and System Administrators who want to support virtualized workloads, either independently from or in the same OpenShift cluster as containerized workloads

Prerequisites

• This course does not require previous knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
• It is recommended but not required to have knowledge equal to the course DO180: Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes

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