Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides virtual machine templates that are preconfigured and customizable.

When creating a custom template, you can configure default parameters for the template, such as the boot source, workload type, CPU and memory, storage, network interfaces, and post-installation tasks. You can also provide a description of the template and include a message to indicate how to use the template.

To view the list of templates from the command line, use the oc get templates -n openshift command.

Containerized Data Importer (CDI) provides the DataVolume Custom Resource Definition(CRD) to orchestrate the import, clone, and upload operations of PVCs for your VMs.

With OpenShift Virtualization, you can create a VM from a data volume, including cloning an existing PVC as a new data volume or uploading a local disk image.