Disaster Recovery: Achieving Instantaneous Hot-Hot with OpenShift

Share The biggest challenge for disaster recovery in traditional environments is that every environment looks and feels different. If you're moving from a colo that someone manages to VMware, the cloud, or a different VMware data center, they all look and feel different. Even if you're using the same virtualization provider, storage is probably handled differently. There has to be a lot of planning and strategy around how to copy data from one area to another since that’s not something natively built into your virtualization provider. You also have to figure out networking, DNS, routing, etc. With Red Hat OpenShift , all of these components are software-defined. You get software-defined DNS, networking, and storage layers all because it’s based on Kubernetes. Out-of-the-box OpenShift won’t “automagically” failover without additional levels of configuration, much like VMware or other traditional infrastructure environments. But the tools required are mostly there for you, either pre-packaged and open-source or robustly tested and a standard in the space. You can set up OpenShift in any environment because the least common denominator for everything, no matter where you are (bare metal or virtual), is the operating system This is where OpenShift lives. That’s why it is the perfect tool for building a truly agile infrastructure that can move freely between environments, providing instantaneous disaster recovery for businesses. There are different benefits of infrastructure agility.