About OKD Virtualization

OKD Virtualization is an add-on to OKD that allows you to run and manage virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads.

OKD Virtualization adds new objects into your OKD cluster by using Kubernetes custom resources to enable virtualization tasks. These tasks include:

An enhanced web console provides a graphical portal to manage these virtualized resources alongside the OKD cluster containers and infrastructure.

OKD Virtualization is designed and tested to work well with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation features.

You can use OKD Virtualization with the OVN-Kubernetes, OpenShift SDN, or one of the other certified default Container Network Interface (CNI) network providers listed in Certified OpenShift CNI Plug-ins.

You can check your OKD Virtualization cluster for compliance issues by installing the Compliance Operator and running a scan with the ocp4-moderate and ocp4-moderate-node profiles. The Compliance Operator uses OpenSCAP, a NIST-certified tool, to scan and enforce security policies.