To address these challenges, Hitachi Vantara's solution incorporates Red Hat OpenShift (including its virtualization functionality), a pre-validated reference architecture, and a powerful virtual machine migration tool that simplifies and accelerates the transition from traditional virtualized environments. VSP One offers multi-site resilience and automatic failover capabilities, ensuring service continuity even in the event of outages. The solution allows organizations to deploy virtual machines and containers simultaneously on a single platform, reducing the need for separate virtualization infrastructures and eliminating duplicate environments, thereby lowering operating, licensing, and hardware costs. Furthermore, VSP One acts as a unified platform for block, file, and object storage, both on-premises and in the cloud, improving data visibility and providing a consistent experience across all environments.

"Organizations are looking to modernize their IT infrastructure without vendor lock-in and while keeping costs under control," said Dan McConnell, senior vice president of product management and enterprise infrastructure at Hitachi Vantara. “By combining Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the high-performance infrastructure of VSP One, we help customers simplify migration, reduce complexity, and accelerate application deployment on a modern hybrid cloud foundation. Customers want options, no hassle, no unnecessary costs, and no strings attached—and that’s what we’re delivering.”

The solution includes a reference architecture jointly developed by Hitachi and Red Hat, designed to ensure high availability across distributed OpenShift clusters. Leveraging Hitachi VSP One Block and Global Active Device (GAD) technology—which enables active-active access to data from multiple locations—the architecture prevents outages, maintains continuous service operation, and facilitates seamless workload mobility across geographically distributed sites. It also offers the option of a third control node in the public cloud or in isolated environments, maximizing high-availability resilience.
Customers like Alior Bank, a leading financial institution in Europe, are already experiencing the benefits of this solution. Faced with rising licensing costs and a lack of flexibility in its previous environment, the bank decided to migrate to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with VSP One.

“Our goal was to have a future-proof platform that could grow while ensuring performance and resilience,” explained Piotr Krzak, CTO of Alior Bank.
“Thanks to the collaboration with Red Hat and Hitachi Vantara, we have built a unified and highly available environment that accelerates innovation, improves scalability, and allows us to better serve our customers.”

The Hitachi Vantara solution with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers key benefits for organizations looking to modernize and migrate from traditional virtualization platforms, including:

Lower costs and technological freedom: By unifying virtual machines and containers on a single platform based on open technologies, organizations gain efficiency and reduce their dependence on single vendors.
Faster migration and deployment: The pre-validated architecture and integrated storage accelerate deployment. The Hitachi storage plugin for containers allows persistent storage to scale without overprovisioning resources.
High availability: VSP One is designed to maintain continuous uptime and support mission-critical workloads.
Automation and end-to-end visibility: OpenShift's automation and observability tools, along with Hitachi Vantara's intelligent infrastructure, enable secure, consistent, and proactive management in hybrid environments.

“At a time when many IT leaders are reevaluating their traditional virtualization platforms, the ability to migrate and modernize without disruption is key,” said Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president of partner ecosystems at Red Hat.
“Red Hat OpenShift is the leading platform for applications in hybrid cloud environments, built on Kubernetes and open standards. Together with Hitachi Vantara's infrastructure, we provide our customers with a solid foundation to reduce costs, consolidate operations, and build resilient, future-ready environments.”

This announcement follows other joint developments between the two companies. At the beginning of the year, the companies introduced an update to the OpenShift migration toolkit for virtualized environments, incorporating a migration feature that shifts the data copying load from the server and IP network to the storage system.
This enhancement, powered by VSP One technology, reduces downtime during migration and helps maintain operational continuity. Hitachi Vantara is the first vendor to make this feature available to the market.