Rising virtualization software license costs have pushed many organizations to look at alternative virtualization platforms. At the same time, they are also trying to containerize more of their applications running in production. Modern virtualization is a way to address both infrastructure challenges. 

Modern virtualization refers to running VM-based applications in Kubernetes clusters to consolidate and optimize application management rather than maintain separate estates and management platforms for VMs and containers. Tools such as open source KubeVirt, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and SUSE Virtualization (formerly Harvester) allow this. 

This IDC PeerScape highlights some of the challenges encountered by organizations as they transitioned into KubeVirt as well as how they overcame them.