Event overview

 

Red Hat^® User Group (RHUG) events offer a unique opportunity for Red Hat technology users to gather and discover solutions to IT challenges with subject matter experts & peers. Join the next RHUG to network and explore cutting-edge solutions for IT modernization. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your IT services while enjoying great food and building connections with industry professionals. This event will focus on the below topic. 

 

The Migration Factory: Scaling vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization with MTV and Ansible

 

Session Description

 

As organizations look to modernize their infrastructure and move away from legacy hypervisor lock-in, the challenge isn't just moving one VM—it’s moving hundreds or thousands with minimal downtime and zero manual error. Simply "lifting and shifting" is no longer enough; success at scale requires a repeatable, automated pipeline.

 

In this session, we dive deep into the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) and demonstrate how to supercharge your evacuation from vSphere using Ansible. We will move beyond the basics of the MTV web console to explore how to build a "Migration Factory." You’ll learn how to leverage Ansible to automate the creation of migration plans, validate source environments, and trigger mass migrations across multiple provider mappings.

 

We will also discuss how to handle the "Day 1" hurdles of mass migration, including mapping vSphere networks to OpenShift Multus and ensuring storage persistence at scale. Whether you are a virtualization admin or an automation engineer, this session provides the blueprint for a hands-off, high-velocity transition to a unified cloud-native platform.

 

Key Highlights & Takeaways

 

• MTV Architecture: Understand the mechanics of the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization and how it handles warm migrations from vSphere.
• Automation at Scale: How to use Ansible modules to programmatically trigger and monitor large-scale migration blocks.
• Infrastructure as Code: Moving from manual "Right-Click" migrations to a version-controlled migration strategy.

Session 2: Securing the Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat Lightspeed
Learn how to bridge the gap between security detection and remediation using Red Hat Lightspeed’s capabilities across RHEL and Ansible. This session explores how to translate complex Red Hat Insights vulnerabilities into actionable, human-readable security playbooks using natural language. We will demonstrate sowing how Lightspeed identifies a threat and generates a trusted fix in seconds. Attendees will walk away with a clear strategy for reducing “time-to-patch” while maintaining a strong security posture on RHEL.

 

Session 3: Red Hat OpenShift AI's MLOPs orchestration with NVIDIA AI enterprise microservices 

Most organizations treat Red Hat and NVIDIA as a separate stack - but when you combine Red Hat OpenShift AI's MLOPs orchestration with NVIDIA AI enterprise microservices, something unexpected happens: your AI workloads get faster, cheaper, and easier to govern all at once. In this session we'll show you a live demo where agents running on OpenShift AI 3.3 integrate directly with NVIDIA AI Enterprise microservices in a hands-on testing environment. We'll walk through exactly why neither platform gets you there on its own.

 

Event Details:

Date: April 30, 2026

Location: Celis brewing: 10001 Metric Blvd, Austin, TX 78758

Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT

Includes: Food, drinks, and networking

 

Questions? Email rhug@redhat.com.