RH018 – Virtualization and Infrastructure Migration Technical Overview — Lesson 4: Business Case, Operating Model, Governance, Roadmap, and Next Steps

Learning Objectives

• Explain the structures, services, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing business value and target operating model.
• Implement and validate governance, roadmap, and success measures using reviewable evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where a technically valid implementation creates operational risk because ownership, monitoring, rollback, or handover controls are incomplete and select a proportionate corrective response.

Detailed Topics

• business value applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• target operating model applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• governance applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• roadmap applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.
• success measures applied to the course scenario, expected platform behavior, dependencies, controls, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an architecture team evaluating how to modernize a mixed virtualization estate and migrate workloads with controlled risk. The walkthrough connects navigation, commands, configuration logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the virtualization assessment, migration option analysis, risk register, and phased modernization roadmap. It also tests the exception where a technically valid implementation creates operational risk because ownership, monitoring, rollback, or handover controls are incomplete.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled Red Hat exercise covering Business Case, Operating Model, Governance, Roadmap, and Next Steps and preserve the verified result in the virtualization assessment, migration option analysis, risk register, and phased modernization roadmap.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, versions, identities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording commands, settings, outputs, events, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, rollback, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, service, policy, setting, or sequence most strongly influences business value.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain technical, security, operational, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the virtualization assessment, migration option analysis, risk register, and phased modernization roadmap should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected behavior first differs from the observed result. Check prerequisites, identity, configuration order, version compatibility, connectivity, status, resource limits, and evidence separately. Treat “a technically valid implementation creates operational risk because ownership, monitoring, rollback, or handover controls are incomplete” as a hypothesis until commands, logs, settings, and retest outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required platform components, identities, permissions, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The virtualization assessment, migration option analysis, risk register, and phased modernization roadmap connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, a boundary condition, dependency behavior, and the stated exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, rollback, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Business Case, Operating Model, Governance, Roadmap, and Next Steps, explain the resulting platform behavior, and defend the outcome through the virtualization assessment, migration option analysis, risk register, and phased modernization roadmap.