Migrating Windows Virtual Machines to OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Red Hat News, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) provides customers a single pane of glass to view and manage their virtual machines (VMs) and containers in the same environment along with common tooling for observability, governance, and infrastructure as code.
The initial release of OpenShift Virtualization on ROSA gave [HT1] customers a unified way to manage their VMs alongside their containerized workloads, but lacked the ability for customers to be compliant with Windows licenses and to pay AWS and Microsoft for those licenses.
We are pleased to be announcing the public preview of Windows Server license included support for OpenShift Virtualization on ROSA. With license included support, the cost of the Windows license is bundled with the Amazon bare metal EC2 instance cost and billed per vCPU. This allows customers running Windows VMs on ROSA a convenient way to manage their licensing costs with their compute usage