Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager vs NetApp Disaster Recovery

Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) coordinates virtual-machine recovery across paired Awanio Cockpit sites. Administrators enroll VMs for scheduled disk replication and set the recovery site, datastore, RPO, recovery-point retention, and traffic compression. The initial sync copies the full disk; later syncs transfer changed blocks. Recovery plans arrange workloads into ordered runbooks with priority groups and boot delays, then replicate as read-only copies to the recovery site. DRM supports isolated test failover, planned migration, emergency failover, reprotection, and failback. During a test, a workload copy boots in an isolated network while production remains untouched. Emergency failover uses the latest completed recovery point, so newer data may be lost. A deployment needs two sites, each with Cockpit and at least one Vapor host, administrator access to both, and connectivity on ports 7770, 7771, and 7772. Orchestrated recovery also requires the Disaster Recovery entitlement at both sites and a DRM license or active trial. Pricing is on request; the time-limited trial permits a small number of protected workloads.

NetApp Disaster Recovery coordinates replication, failover, and failback for VMware virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters between source and recovery sites. It uses NetApp ONTAP SnapMirror to keep application-consistent Snapshot copies synchronized; asynchronous replication can support a recovery point objective as low as five minutes. Teams can conduct nondisruptive failover tests using temporary virtual machines and FlexClone volumes. VMware recovery targets include on-premises environments, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and Amazon Elastic VMware Service. Kubernetes recovery supports on-premises NFS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel, and recovery from on premises to AWS using NFS or iSCSI. The service runs within the NetApp Console SaaS environment and uses a Console agent in a cloud or private on-premises network. Its intelligent proxy communicates over HTTPS on port 443 without requiring a VPN or direct internet access. Licensing is based on used capacity on protected source ONTAP volumes, not virtual machine or application count. A free trial is listed, but plan prices are not provided.