Are You Staying on Your Current Hypervisor Because You Really Want To… or Because You Think You Have To?

The reality is: there’s more choice among virtualization vendors than ever. Yet too many customers we meet still initially tell us that they basically feel trapped by their legacy hypervisors.

From Red Hat’s “The state of virtualization” report, May 2025

Meanwhile, what used to be a stable and dependable foundation for your virtual workloads is now becoming a source of escalating costs, unnecessary complexity, and sudden, long-term contractual lock-in demands by your current provider. But here’s the good news: not only do you have fantastic OEM solution alternatives like Red Hat®‘s these days, you also have trusted Red Hat partners like Level Up, who can help you plan for virtualization migration success from the very start, not just after considerable trial-and-error.

Check out “Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization® Migration Assessment by Level Up” on the AWS® Marketplace for current pricing and engagement details.

As a Red Hat Premier Partner with deep specialization and a proven track record in Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud, Level Up is helping our customers begin to regain control of their mission critical infrastructure via a customized Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Migration Assessment (VMA). This dedicated engagement gives you a clear, confident roadmap for migrating off your legacy virtualization platform.

A majority of organizations surveyed note that they are likely to switch to a different hypervisor platform in the next 3 years, with 43% reporting that they are very/extremely likely…

Red Hat’s “The state of virtualization” report, May 2025

Level Up’s VMA Offers You a Strategy Reset, not Simply a Health Check

Our VMA engagement brings in seasoned Red Hat architects to lead targeted sessions with your networking, platform, and security teams. Over the course of our time together, we co-create a forward-looking VM migration plan with you by:

  • Mapping your current infrastructure and VM workloads
  • Identifying use cases for early wins and pilot candidates
  • Understanding your Day 2 needs like automation, DR, and monitoring
  • Analyzing existing integrations: storage, networking, clustering, and more
  • Documenting your people, processes, and skills so the plan fits your team

The main deliverables? A high-level migration blueprint, a prioritized workload roadmap, and practical tooling recommendations to help you move forward fast, and without disrupting your critical business continuity.

Check out “Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization® Migration Assessment by Level Up” on the AWS® Marketplace for current pricing and engagement details.

Why Level Up?

We don’t just drop in, schedule an endless series of meetings with your already-overloaded technical teams, then later hand you a PowerPoint deck telling you a bunch of things you probably already knew about your own environment before disappearing. Instead, Level Up’s expert team brings you immediate, validated technical competency, combined with real-world delivery experience, across virtualization, automation, and hybrid cloud platforms. We speak fluent Red Hat. But more importantly, we seek to learn your unique business, your teams, and your hard technical constraints.

Let’s Turn Your Legacy Hypervisor Present Into a Cloud-Native Future

If you’re still relying on your legacy vendor because VM migration just seems too risky, too expensive, or too complicated… Level Up’s VMA is designed to eliminate that uncertainty from the beginning, not just by the end. We’ll help you quickly see what it will take to move, and what your organization stands to win in savings, as well as new features and functionality, by doing so now.

See also: “15 reasons to adopt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization”: https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/vi-15-reasons-adopt-openshift-virtualization-ebook-1933889pr-202504-en_0.pdf

👉 Ready to take next steps? Level Up is currently offering personalized VMA engagements via AWS Marketplace: Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization® Migration Assessment by Level Up.


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