RED HAT RHEL

Linux gives you freedom. Governance gives you confidence. The best environments have both.

 

RHEL | OpenShift Virtualisation | Migration Toolkit for Virtualisation

Everything your IT, finance, and leadership teams need to evaluate, approve, and plan a move onto Red Hat, before your next renewal locks you in again.

  

ASSESS YOUR READINESS

90% +

More than nine in ten of the US Fortune 500 rely on Red Hat for their critical workloads. 

540%

Return on investment. Independent analysis puts the three year return on Red Hat Enterprise Linux at 540 percent. 

18 - 36

Months to payback. Even with migration services, training, and a dual-running period factored in, most organisations reach payback within 18 to 36 months, then save every year after.

Rethinking your Hyper-V estate

Your virtual machines are running, but the ground underneath them is shifting. Licensing costs, roadmap uncertainty, and rising compliance demands are pushing New Zealand organisations to look again at what their virtualisation platform really costs, and what it locks them into.

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives you an open, predictable foundation for the workloads you run today and the containers, automation, and AI you will run tomorrow. Softsource vBridge, Red Hat's New Zealand delivery partner, plans and delivers the move, then keeps the new estate secure, compliant, and sovereign long after go-live.

 

Linux gives you freedom. Governance gives you confidence. The best environments have both.

Five Reasons to Choose Red Hat RHEL

 

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Open platform, no lock-in. 

Built on open source, so you choose your hardware, cloud, and deployment model without a single vendor dictating your roadmap. 

Predictable, subscription pricing.

Software, security updates, and enterprise support in one transparent annual cost. No forced bundles, no core-minimum penalties.

Enterprise-grade security.

Mandatory access controls and a hardened open source hypervisor give mission-critical workloads a strong, provable security posture. 

Virtual machines and containers on one platform.

OpenShift Virtualization runs your existing virtual machines beside modern containers, cutting tool sprawl and letting you modernise at your own pace. 

Lower-risk, tooling-assisted migration.

Red Hat's Migration Toolkit for Virtualization automates discovery, assessment, and moves in phased, validated waves, so there is no big-bang cutover.

Is your Hyper-V estate ready for a move to Red Hat?

Answer a few short questions about your current Hyper-V environment. You will get an instant readiness score and a tailored next step, with no obligation.


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RHEL | OpenShift Virtualisation | Migration Toolkit for Virtualisation
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Section one

Your environment today

Roughly how many virtual machines run on Hyper-V?

When does your virtualisation licensing or support agreement next renew?

Section two

Cost and commercial

Section three

Technical and strategic

Section four

Governance and risk

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Step one

Assessment

Inventory, environment review, and compatibility analysis of your Hyper-V estate.

Step two

Business case

Three to five year cost model, migration estimate, and an approval-ready summary.

Step three

Migration plan

Phased roadmap, pilot scope, and the Softsource vBridge delivery model.

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Softsource vBridge is Red Hat's New Zealand delivery partner, with an NZ-based team, ISO 27001 aligned security practices, and sovereign NZ infrastructure options for regulated and enterprise workloads. This tool is a guide only and does not replace a formal assessment.

You've Taken the First Step. Here's What Happens Next

Assessment

Inventory, environment review, and compatibility analysis.

 

Business Case

TCO model, migration cost estimate, and approval-ready summary 

Migration Plan

Phased roadmap, pilot scope, and Softsource delivery model 

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