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Konveyor Forklift

VM migration at scale.

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Overview

Forklift, part of the Konveyor community, is a Kubernetes operator designed to facilitate the mass migration of virtual machines from traditional virtualization platforms (like VMware) to KubeVirt. KubeVirt allows VMs to run natively within a Kubernetes cluster. Forklift orchestrates the entire migration process, including connecting to source providers, mapping infrastructure, and executing migration plans for hundreds of VMs.

✨ Key Features

  • Mass migration of VMs to KubeVirt
  • Supports VMware vSphere as a source
  • Validation of migration plans before execution
  • Warm and cold migration options
  • Extensible with a provider framework
  • Managed via Kubernetes Custom Resources (CRDs)

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Open-source and community-driven
  • Designed for mass migration ('hundreds of VMs')
  • Uses a declarative, Kubernetes-native approach with CRDs
  • Focuses purely on the VM migration aspect to KubeVirt

Unique Value: Provides an open-source, scalable, and Kubernetes-native solution for rehosting large numbers of virtual machines onto a modern, unified container and VM platform.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Migrating a large number of VMware VMs to a Kubernetes-based platform Consolidating VM and container workloads on a single cluster Adopting a cloud-native infrastructure while retaining legacy VM applications Executing phased data center migrations to Kubernetes

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Containerizing the application within the VM
  • Migrating to a non-Kubernetes or non-KubeVirt target

🏆 Alternatives

Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization

Offers a more community-driven and potentially more flexible alternative to vendor-specific tools like Red Hat's MTV, while focusing specifically on the challenge of mass VM migration to KubeVirt.

💻 Platforms

API (Kubernetes CRDs)

🔌 Integrations

Kubernetes KubeVirt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization VMware vSphere

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Live Chat
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Community (Slack, GitHub) tier)

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: The tool is completely open source and free.

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