Enterprises leaving legacy hypervisors are finding that moving virtual machines is only half the job, and that a portable data management layer often decides whether a Kubernetes migration succeeds. Rising license costs are pushing teams to run containers and VMs on one platform.
That shift is playing out at Mouser Electronics Inc., one of the world’s largest electronic components distributors. After running Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift for containers for five to six years, the company is now building a production OpenShift Virtualization cluster to move workloads off Broadcom Inc.’s VMware, according to Ronald Waller (pictured, left), systems engineer at Mouser.
“It doesn’t matter if we’re running containers or VMs, we’re running it on the same foundation, which really works well,” Waller said. “Because we can manage those things with the same tool sets and same skill sets.”
Waller and Jon Owings (right), assistant vice president of global technical presales, cloud…
