NetApp Disaster Recovery vs Trilio Site Recovery

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.

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.