VM Migration from Intel® Xeon® on VMware vSphere® 8 to AMD EPYC™ 9004 on Red Hat® OpenShift®
As software distribution shifts to containerized environments, organizations face challenges in migrating stateful applications from virtual machines (VMs) to Kubernetes-managed containers. While VMs provide isolated environments with persistent storage, containers follow an ephemeral model that complicates storage and application state management. This paper examines Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Operator and Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization Operator as solutions to bridge the gap, enabling efficient transition while addressing key challenges in containerizing stateful applications.