Cristie CloneManager vs Trilio Site Recovery

Cristie CloneManager Replication provides continuous system replication across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It supports file-based and block-based replication; block-based replication can lower recovery point objectives compared with file-based replication. Replication can target virtual disk image files in VHDX, QCOW2 and VMDK formats, as well as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud and S3 blob storage. The software monitors source systems and can automatically fail over after an outage, with DNS changes if needed. Multiple systems and their failover and failback can be managed through one interface. Teams can create sandbox test environments, including on physical systems, without interrupting continuous replication. RPO monitoring includes reports and email notices when replication falls outside target RPOs. The supported systems matrix includes Windows and Linux and virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Replication costs $500 a year per protected system, with 12 months of support and maintenance. A free trial is offered, but no fixed duration is stated.

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.