Kyle Brown - Running a VMS Cluster on a Kubernetes Cluster

Description

Running a VMSCluster on a Kubernetes Cluster, Kyle Brown, OpenVMS Ambassador. Presented at VSI's OpenVMS Bootcamp in Portsmouth, October 23rd, 2025. "In this presentation I would like to go over the initial setup/configuration of an OpenVMS cluster inside of Kubevirt which enables running virtual machines inside of Kubernetes like any other container workload. The underlying technology is QEMU, which is a hypervisor supported by VSI. For customers who are currently running OpenShift by Red Hat this will provide insights to anyone who would want to migrate to x86 VMS in this sort of environment. At a high level, a discussion of Kubernetes requirements will be gone over, how to upload your installation medium, and a demonstration of a VMSCluster that is running inside of this environment. I would then go over some reasons as to why you would build your environment like this (Show internal cluster communication, taking advantage of cloud/Kubernetes backups, container lifecycle, and a running application having traffic stay internal to Kubernetes)."