Cohesity SiteContinuity vs Trilio Site Recovery

Cohesity SiteContinuity coordinates disaster recovery for mission-critical workloads, with recovery options ranging from an individual file or business application to a full data center. Its plan builder supports automated failover and failback, continuous data protection, asynchronous replication, non-disruptive recovery testing and restore operations. Organizations can manage physical or virtual clusters at primary and recovery sites, or choose Cohesity-managed disaster recovery that fails over to the customer’s AWS account. Listed targets include VMware Standard or above, versions 6.5 and 6.7, and Cohesity NAS Views for customer-managed deployment; the managed service lists VMware VMs and Amazon EC2 as a target. Interfaces for automation include a RESTful API, PowerShell and Python SDK. The datasheet lists AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest for both options, and anomaly detection for customer-managed deployment. Pricing is on request, with a 30-day trial listed. Cohesity states that technical support is available around the clock, with a one-hour initial response target for P1 errors.

Trilio Site Recovery is a paid, hybrid disaster-recovery product for KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization virtual machines. It uses continuous, storage-agnostic replication without a VM agent. Synchronous block replication targets near-zero RPO, while asynchronous replication is also available. Automated failover can start VMs in a defined order, reassign networks, and cut over DNS. Isolated tests run from replicated snapshots without disrupting production, with compliance reports available. Replication policies are Kubernetes custom resources that can be kept as Git-managed manifests, and the product lists ArgoCD, Flux, and ACM compatibility. Its OpenShift-native operator architecture uses CRDs and a centralized control plane for multiple clusters. Hooks before and after failover can quiesce databases, flush writes, and notify dependent services. Listed capabilities include persistent-volume and cluster-resource backup, application-consistent backup, dependency mapping, instant VM recovery, immutable storage, cloud targets, and off-site replication. Availability is described as Technology Preview through Trilio’s Early Adopter Program, supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 and later. Pricing is on request.