Tech Preview: Disaster recovery in OpenShift virtualization environment
Note: OpenShift-V DR is strictly a tech preview and this should not be used in a production environment.
VIKE introduces Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery (VM-DR) as a Tech Preview capability for protecting virtualized workloads running on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.17 and later. VM-DR extends the existing DR Manager workflow by enabling the capture, migration, and restoration of VirtualMachine and VirtualMachinePool resources across clusters participating in a DisasterRecoveryPlan.
VM-DR extends InfoScale's disaster recovery workflow to support virtualized workloads on OpenShift by providing: Automated shutdown, capture, migration, restore, and restart operations No additional installation or configuration requirements Predictable migration, failover, and failback workflows Strong consistency validation across source and target clusters Preservation of persistent storage to support seamless failback VM-DR integrates directly with existing DR constructs - GlobalClusterMembership, DataReplication, and DisasterRecoveryPlan - and requires no changes to the established workflow.
Note: VM-DR has been validated for up to 5 to 7 VirtualMachines. Larger VM counts are not supported.