diff --git a/frontend/public/components/nav.jsx b/frontend/public/components/nav.jsx
index 4447e35daac..8783c8a7cb7 100644
--- a/frontend/public/components/nav.jsx
+++ b/frontend/public/components/nav.jsx
@@ -364,7 +364,8 @@ export class Nav extends React.Component {
     const { isOpen } = this.state;
 
     if (isKubevirt()) {
-      return <KubevirtNav isOpen={isOpen} onToggle={this.toggle} close={this.close} scroller={this.scroller} onWheel={this.preventScroll} />;
+      // The ResourceNSLink, HrefLink, Sep components are passed as props to eliminate the need for additional changes in OKD core code. Ugly anti-pattern, but serves its purpose.
+      return <KubevirtNav isOpen={isOpen} onToggle={this.toggle} close={this.close} scroller={this.scroller} onWheel={this.preventScroll} searchStartsWith={searchStartsWith} ResourceNSLink={ResourceNSLink} HrefLink={HrefLink} Sep={Sep} ResourceClusterLink={ResourceClusterLink} />;
     }
 
     return <React.Fragment>
diff --git a/frontend/public/kubevirt/components/nav.jsx b/frontend/public/kubevirt/components/nav.jsx
index 3e10053fdb4..8d244bd731e 100644
--- a/frontend/public/kubevirt/components/nav.jsx
+++ b/frontend/public/kubevirt/components/nav.jsx
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import * as classNames from 'classnames';
 
-import {NavSection, ClusterPickerNavSection, UserNavSection} from './okdcomponents';
-import {formatNamespacedRouteForResource} from '../ui/okdui-actions';
+import * as routingImg from '../../imgs/routing.svg';
+import * as routingActiveImg from '../../imgs/routing-active.svg';
+import { FLAGS } from '../../features';
+
+import { NavSection, ClusterPickerNavSection, UserNavSection } from './okdcomponents';
+import { DeploymentConfigModel } from '../models';
 
 // With respect to keep changes to OKD codebase at bare minimum,
-// the navigation needs to be reconstructed
-const Nav = ({ isOpen, onToggle, close, scroller, onWheel }) => {
+// the navigation needs to be reconstructed.
+// The ResourceNSLink, HrefLink, Sep components are passed as props to eliminate the need for additional changes in OKD core code. Ugly anti-pattern, but serves its purpose.
+const Nav = ({ isOpen, onToggle, close, scroller, onWheel, searchStartsWith, ResourceNSLink, HrefLink, Sep, ResourceClusterLink }) => {
   return (
     <React.Fragment>
       <button type="button" className="sidebar-toggle" aria-controls="sidebar" aria-expanded={isOpen} onClick={onToggle}>
@@ -18,8 +23,45 @@ const Nav = ({ isOpen, onToggle, close, scroller, onWheel }) => {
       <div id="sidebar" className={classNames({'open': isOpen})}>
         <ClusterPickerNavSection />
         <div ref={scroller} onWheel={onWheel} className="navigation-container">
-          <NavSection text="Virtual Machines" href={formatNamespacedRouteForResource('virtualmachines')} icon="pficon pficon-home" />
-          <NavSection text="Templates" icon="pficon pficon-template" />
+          <NavSection text="Home" icon="pficon pficon-home">
+            <HrefLink href="/overview" name="Overview" activePath="/overview/" onClick={close} />
+            <HrefLink href="/status" name="Status" activePath="/status/" onClick={close} />
+            {/*<HrefLink href="/catalog" name="Catalog" activePath="/catalog/" onClick={close} />*/}
+            <HrefLink href="/search" name="Search" onClick={close} startsWith={searchStartsWith} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="events" name="Events" onClick={close} />
+          </NavSection>
+
+          <NavSection text="Workloads" icon="fa fa-folder-open-o">
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="virtualmachines" name="Virtual Machines" onClick={close} />
+
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="pods" name="Pods" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="deployments" name="Deployments" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="deploymentconfigs" name={DeploymentConfigModel.labelPlural} onClick={close} required={FLAGS.OPENSHIFT} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="statefulsets" name="Stateful Sets" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="secrets" name="Secrets" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="configmaps" name="Config Maps" onClick={close} />
+            <Sep />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="cronjobs" name="Cron Jobs" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="jobs" name="Jobs" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="daemonsets" name="Daemon Sets" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="replicasets" name="Replica Sets" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="replicationcontrollers" name="Replication Controllers" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="horizontalpodautoscalers" name="HPAs" onClick={close} />
+          </NavSection>
+
+          <NavSection text="Networking" img={routingImg} activeImg={routingActiveImg} >
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="services" name="Services" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="routes" name="Routes" onClick={close} required={FLAGS.OPENSHIFT} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="ingresses" name="Ingress" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="networkpolicies" name="Network Policies" onClick={close} />
+          </NavSection>
+
+          <NavSection text="Storage" icon="pficon pficon-container-node">
+            <ResourceClusterLink resource="persistentvolumes" name="Persistent Volumes" onClick={close} required={FLAGS.CAN_LIST_PV} />
+            <ResourceNSLink resource="persistentvolumeclaims" name="Persistent Volume Claims" onClick={close} />
+            <ResourceClusterLink resource="storageclasses" name="Storage Classes" onClick={close} required={FLAGS.CAN_LIST_STORE} />
+          </NavSection>
+
           <UserNavSection closeMenu={close} />
         </div>
       </div>