# Networking and Security with   Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Calico

Extend network security and visibility to VMs and hosts

If you’re navigating the complexities of modernizing your legacy virtual machine-based applications by seamlessly running both containerized and virtualized workloads side-by-side on-premises and public clouds—this solution brief provides a streamlined approach to managing containers, virtual machines, and hosts using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Calico.

## What You’ll Discover:

- **Unified Management:** See how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Calico Enterprise together simplify operations by providing a consistent networking and network security model for VMs and containers across hybrid cloud infrastructures.
- **Enhanced Networking & Security:** Understand key capabilities like isolated routed tenant networks, microsegmentation, and dynamic routing to support complex networking needs.
- **Granular Control:** Explore the precise network policies provided by Calico, enhancing control over allowed and denied traffic for tenant isolation and compliance.
- **Observability:** Real-time view of traffic flows within and outside Kubernetes clusters to understand workload dependencies, view policy enforcement, and faster troubleshooting.
- **Cluster mesh:** Deploy security policy to protect traffic between pods in multi-cluster Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments. Easily update and enforce network security policies to a single application distributed across multiple clusters to meet regulatory and organizational requirements.

## Get the Guide

This guide is for virtualization admins, platform engineers, cloud architects, infrastructure architects, DevOps, SREs, and decision-makers assessing virtualization, networking, and security needs across hybrid environments with Kubernetes-native tools.