Whitepaper: Trilio Site Recovery (TSR) — DR for Kubernetes-native VMs

Trilio Site Recovery

Trilio Site Recovery. Storage Agnostic Disaster Recovery. Built for OpenShift Virtualization.

Protect, replicate, and recover your VMs in minutes:

  • Synchronous block-level replication with RPO=0
  • Automated failover orchestration
  • Git-ops integrated; and,
  • Centralized multi-tenant management.

The only purpose-build DR solution  for OpenShift Virtualization.

Trilio · VM Replication Monitor LIVE
● PRIMARY CLUSTER
vm-prod-01 running
vm-db-primary running
vm-app-02 syncing
vm-web-01 running
TLS 1.3
Encrypted
● DR SITE / CLOUD
vm-prod-01 protected
vm-db-primary protected
vm-app-02 syncing
vm-web-01 protected
Active Policy prod-critical • RPO 0 • RTO <4min • Auto-failover ON
0 RPO
<4m RTO
0 Data Loss
DR Test

The Challenge

The VMware Migration Gap

As enterprises migrate to OpenShift Virtualization, legacy DR tools leave a critical blind spot — leaving production VMs completely unprotected and compliance postures exposed.

01

Legacy Tools Don't Speak OpenShift

Most BCDR and legacy tools were designed for vSphere. They have no native understanding of OpenShift APIs, namespaces, or VMs in KVM — leaving migrated workloads fully exposed.

02

No Native DR for OpenShift VMs

OpenShift Virtualization ships with no built-in disaster recovery. Without purpose-built tooling, organizations face an impossible choice: accept the risk or abandon the migration.

03

Compliance Gaps Create Audit Risk

RTO/RPO commitments written for legacy infra no longer apply. DR runbooks go stale, testing windows can't be met, and audit evidence disappears — right when regulators ask for it.

How Trilio is Meeting Your Requirements

Legacy Vendor
Legacy tools: no OCP API support
Trilio is OpenShift-native, operator-based, CRD-driven
No built-in VM replication in OCP
Synchronous 0 RPO or asynchronous replication available
DR testing disrupts production
Non-disruptive isolated DR test environments, on-demand
Manual failover = human error + delay
Automated failover with pre-validated runbooks and rollback
Centralized multi-site management
Single control plane managing DR across multiple OCP clusters

Future proof your organization with a solution that provides the flexibility of being storage agnostic and freedom of non-proprietary formats resulting in no vendor lock-in.

Trilio Site Recovery For OpenStack And Kubernetes
THREE-CLUSTER QUORUM MODEL · SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION · OPENSHIFT VIRTUALIZATION NATIVE
COMMON CONTROL MANAGEMENT CLUSTER

Manager Operator

  • Installed via OLM/OperatorHub
  • Orchestrates all Primary/DR

Red Hat Operator Certified

TSR Dashboard

  • Centralized UI
  • Multi-tenant views / RBAC
  • Compliance reporting per tenant

OpenShift Console Plugin (Roadmap)

Orchestration Engine

  • Failover
  • Failback
  • Test failover

GitOps / ArgoCD Compatible

ORCHESTRATES
ORCHESTRATES
ORCHESTRATES
PROTECTION ZONE
Workload Operator Installed by customer via OLM
Production KubeVirt VMs Active workloads
Replication Source Block-level
Synchronous
RPO = 0
Kernel-level
No VM agent
Storage agnostic
Workload Operator Installed by customer via OLM
Standby KubeVirt VMs Ready for immediate failover activation
Replica Always in sync · Failover activates VMs
C
D

Platform Capabilities

Built for the Way You Operate

Six foundational capabilities that eliminate the DR gap for OpenShift VM environments — from single-cluster to multi-cloud at scale.

Policy-Driven Replication

Define replication policies as Kubernetes CRDs. granular RPO targets per workload tier., with granular RPO targets per workload tier. GitOps-ready from day one.

CRD-based policies

Automated Failover

Trigger failovers via API, webhook, or monitoring integration. Trilio orchestrates VM startup order, network reassignment, and DNS cutover — in minutes, not hours.

RTO < 5 min

Non-Disruptive DR Testing

Spin up isolated test environments from replicated snapshots to validate recovery, run runbooks, and generate compliance reports—without impacting production.

Zero production impact

GitOps Integration

Protection policies, replication configurations, and deployment parameters can be stored in Git as Kubernetes manifests and applied through ArgoCD, Flux, or any Kubernetes-native CD system. The audit trail is the Git history.

ArgoCD · Flux · ACM

Application-Consistent

Run pre and post-failover hooks to quiesce databases, flush writes, and notify dependent services — before and after every failover or DR test. No more crash-consistent recoveries.

VMs + Pods · Single pane

Why Trilio

Trusted by OpenShift Teams

Native to Red Hat’s Premier partner ecosystem.

Trilio Achieves Red Hat Premier Partner Status, Advancing Data Protection Across OpenShift & Red Hat’s Sovereign Cloud

Trilio becomes a Red Hat Premier Partner, strengthening collaboration to deliver cloud-native data protection, disaster recovery, and resilience for OpenShift, AI, and hybrid cloud environments.

Unify Your Red Hat OpenShift Data Protection

Complexity shouldn’t compromise your recovery. Discover how Trilio provides seamless, enterprise-grade data protection for your entire Red Hat OpenShift environment, from persistent volumes to metadata.

Zero
Minimum RPO Target
<Minutes
Validated RTO Benchmark
100%
OCP-Native Architecture
0s
Production Impact During DR Test

Technical Resources

Go Deeper on Trilio

Architecture documentation, technical whitepaper, and live demonstration sessions — available ahead of Red Hat Summit.

Master Zero-Downtime DR for OpenShift

Ready to eliminate data loss? Discover how Trilio Site Recovery (TSR) combines synchronous replication with automated orchestration to deliver Zero RPO for your virtualized workloads.

Red Hat Summit Session & Demo Theater

Book a 30-minute live demo at our Summit demo theater, or attend our technical breakout. Watch a live failover from primary to DR in under 5 minutes with real OpenShift clusters.

Trilio Reference Architecture

High-resolution architecture diagram showing deployment topology across primary and DR clusters, operator placement, network paths, and integration points with ACM, ArgoCD, and GitOps tooling.

Get Started

See Trilio
at Red Hat Summit

Meet the team, watch a live failover, and start your enterprise evaluation. We’re running demo theater sessions throughout the event.

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