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Virtualisation without lock-in

Reduce licensing risk, stabilise costs, and modernise virtual workloads with confidence.

Virtualisation is no longer a background decision

Licensing changes, rising costs, and vendor concentration have forced organisations to re-evaluate how they run, scale, and govern virtual machines.

Kestrel Eight helps organisations modernise virtualisation with minimal disruption, leading with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, while supporting all major Kubernetes and infrastructure platforms.

Consolidation

Unify your virtual machines and containers on a single platform, reducing complexity and operational overhead while maximising resource efficiency.

Migration

Seamlessly move virtual machines from traditional hypervisors to OpenShift with minimal disruption, maintaining compatibility while unlocking cloud-native benefits.

Modernisation

Transform legacy applications at your own pace, gradually containerising workloads while running VMs and containers side-by-side on the same infrastructure.

Hybrid-Cloud

Deploy and manage workloads consistently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments with true portability and flexibility.

What We Deliver

We partner with you to transform your virtualisation infrastructure with confidence. Whether you're planning your exit strategy or executing complex migrations, we deliver expertise across three critical dimensions:

Virtualisation Strategy & Exit Planning

  • Current-state VM and cost analysis
  • Dependency and risk mapping
  • Wave-based migration planning
  • Executive decision support

OpenShift-Led Virtualisation

We commonly recommend OpenShift Virtualization for:

  • Predictable VM economics
  • Unified VM and container operations
  • Sovereign and hybrid deployment models

We also support workloads across:

  • Other popular Kubernetes distributions
  • Cloud-native virtualisation on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
  • Mixed hypervisor estates

Migration & Integration

  • VM re-hosting and re-platforming
  • Network and storage integration
  • Identity and security alignment
  • Parallel-run and rollback planning

How We Engage

Clients engage us through:

  • Fixed-scope virtualisation assessments
  • Migration delivery projects
  • Embedded virtualisation engineers and architects

All delivery is Australian-based. Security-cleared (Baseline to NV1/NV2) resources are available.

Resources

Whatever stage of your virtualisation journey, we're here to support you.

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Discover OpenShift

Application containers enable organisations to deliver solutions with speed and resilience. Kestrel Eight and Red Hat OpenShift provides the enterprise-ready platform to run these workloads at scale.

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E-BOOK

Get started with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Learn how to use OpenShift Virtualization to provision virtual machines, update configurations, manage storage resources, and more.

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BROCHURE

Open the Door to OVE

Performance Virtualisation and Cost Stabilisation! Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine (OVE) delivers proven virtualisation to deploy and scale VM workloads.

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Ready to start your virtualisation journey with Kestrel Eight?