Beyond Backups: Achieving True Disaster Recovery for Modern Hybrid Cloud Workloads

As modern microservices and hybrid cloud workloads scale, legacy data protection tools are increasingly falling short. Today’s enterprise IT teams require more than slow, manual, backup-based recovery—they demand seamless, unified orchestration and automated failover to ensure true operational resilience.

To meet this challenge, an integrated and highly cost-effective platform has emerged by combining the strengths of SUSE Rancher Prime, CloudCasa DR, and HPE Alletra Storage. This joint architecture unifies virtual machine (VM) and container management, completely replacing traditional, slow backup restores with high-performance storage replication and multi-cluster orchestration.

The Core Pillars of the Joint Solution

Enterprise environments running both traditional applications and cloud-native microservices face complex data protection requirements. By combining industry-leading enterprise container management with native storage-layer replication, this solution addresses recovery at every level:

1. Near-Zero RPO via Automated Storage-Level Replication

True disaster recovery requires minimizing data loss. Utilizing the advanced capabilities of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, the solution provides synchronous or periodic native storage replication directly to your secondary disaster recovery site. Because this replication executes natively at the hardware storage layer, data movement is completely bypassed during a failover event, delivering a near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for both virtual machines and Kubernetes applications.

2. Minutes-Level RTO with HPE CSI Integration

Traditional disaster recovery workflows often lean heavily on brittle, manual recovery scripts or tedious rebuilding from offline backups. CloudCasa addresses this by integrating directly with the HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes. During failover and failback operations, the platform automatically provisions and imports replicated storage volumes. This fully automated pipeline cuts recovery timelines down to a minutes-level Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

3. Declarative Container and VM Orchestration

The joint solution supports declarative disaster recovery plans across namespaces, applications, and VM groups. This enables coordinated failover and recovery workflows alongside bidirectional replication. When returning to normal operations, reverse replication guarantees a safe, structured failback and automated re-synchronization to the primary infrastructure site.

Unified “Single Pane of Glass” Management

Operating disparate management toolchains for containers and virtual machines introduces operational risk and complexity. CloudCasa remedies this by serving as a single pane of glass for backup, recovery, and DR across environments managed by SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Virtualization.

Through this native technology integration, IT administrators can effortlessly deploy lightweight agents, configure centralized compliance policies, and centrally manage data protection rules across multiple clusters from a centralized dashboard.

Why Choose SUSE Rancher Prime, CloudCasa, and HPE?

• Streamlined Operations: Unifies Kubernetes and virtual machine management into a single, consistent workflow, simplifying hybrid IT operations across traditional and cloud-native applications.
• Freedom of Choice: Avoids vendor lock-in with native support for any CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution across on-premises, public cloud, and edge infrastructures.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: Backed by strict centralized security governance, policy controls, a secure software supply chain, trusted delivery, and priority support services.

Ready to modernize your infrastructure? Learn more about configuring declarative DR workflows here

Supplemental Technical Demonstrations:

CloudCasa DR for HPE Alletra on SUSE RKE2 — Part 1: Automated Failover Orchestration

CloudCasa DR for HPE Alletra on SUSE RKE2 — Part 2: Seamless Failback and Resynchronization