Chris Crow

Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Portworx

Matthew Baker

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Portworx

If you’ve spent your career in vSphere, OpenShift Virtualization can feel like a foreign language — but the concepts you already know map surprisingly directly onto it. This webinar walks through the first three lessons of our OpenShift Virtualization for VMware Administrators series, giving you a practical, no-Kubernetes-internals introduction to the platform.

We start with a quick review of the VMware stack and a high-level look at how OpenShift Virtualization fits in — a VM is still a VM, and a node is the new ESXi host. From there we unpack the core model: how virtual machines are represented as objects (VirtualMachine and VirtualMachineInstance), the pod-based architecture underneath, and how pod networking parallels the port groups you already manage.

Finally, we get hands-on with standing up a cluster — the hardware and virtualization requirements, boot media and PXE vs. ISO options, and how master and worker nodes come together into a working cluster.

Delivered as a whiteboard walkthrough with OpenShift Console demos, this session is designed to be the first step for vSphere admins evaluating or planning a move to OpenShift Virtualization.

What attendees walk away with:

• A vSphere → OpenShift Virtualization concept map (ESXi→node, datastore→PVC, port group→network policy)
• The VM object model (VirtualMachine / VirtualMachineInstance) and pod-based VM architecture
• A clear picture of cluster sizing, boot media, and node roles for a first install