RackWare SWIFT – Container Replication, Backup, and DR

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Migration, Backup, and Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes and OpenShift

Move and Protect your Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments with RackWare SWIFT. Migrate applications from any environment into the Cloud, including Cloud-to-Cloud. Protect critical workloads with SWIFT’s Converged Disaster Recovery and Backup solution.

RackWare’s Hybrid Cloud philosophy is anchored in the belief that all applications and data should be secure, mobile, and available. For over a decade Enterprises have used RackWare solutions to Move and Protect Windows and Linux servers; providing the capability to move any server from any datacenter or cloud to any other datacenter or cloud, whether that be for Migration or Disaster Recovery & Backup purposes.

That same any-to-any Move and Protect capability is now available for all Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments. Some key capabilities of RackWare SWIFT include:

• Move and Protect Kubernetes/OpenShift across multiple Cloud Platforms, including: Oracle OKE, Azure AKS, IBM Cloud, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, Linode LKE, Digital Ocean DOKS

• Cross-Cloud, Cross-Platform, Cross-Version replications.

  For example, your stateful application running on top of OpenShift in AWS with gp2 storage-driver can be replicated to Oracle OKE with OKE version and available storage type of your choice.

• Backup: Point in time application backups to any Block or Object storage and click-button restore

• Disaster Recovery: Fully automated Failover and Fallback

  Failover to a geographically remote location in the cloud of your choice, or...

  Failover to another Cloud

• Protection for Stateful AND Stateless applications

• No vendor lock-in

• No storage lock-in

Solution Highlights

Easy Set-up – SWIFT installs seamlessly outside of your managed clusters and automatically Discovers all aspects of each cluster, determining application object dependencies. The selected namespaces, application Pods, volumes, and other objects are then Captured. All this without an agent!

Delta Sync Engine – SWIFT provides a simple-to-use interface with a powerful policy engine that allows the user to configure Sync Policies for all Discovered clusters. Whether you are Migrating the Cluster, doing Backups or Disaster Recovery, SWIFT’s powerful Delta Sync Engine will keep your active and captured Clusters in Sync.

Disaster Recovery/Backup – SWIFT provides two modes for Disaster Recovery. First is a live-sync mode where all clusters/applications are up-andrunning in a remote location, with SWIFT continuously syncing both Stateful and Stateless data between Source and Target. The second option allows the user to sync all data to SWIFT local/block or Object storage and recover all clusters/applications from SWIFT storage only in the event of a disaster, or for a test drill. This mode provides huge cost savings with dynamically provisioning your DR clusters only for DR event while still achieving outstanding RPO and RTO times. Additionally, SWIFT allows incremental application backups.

Migration – SWIFT has the capability to Migrate any cluster version from any cloud to any other cloud. It’s agentless migration.

Cross-Platform – For both Migration and Disaster Recovery use cases, SWIFT can replicate cross-platform, cross-cloud, and cross-version.

Security – All data transfers using SWIFT are fully encrypted.

Support Matrix

SWIFT supports the following container orchestration platforms for replication, backup, and DR:

Kubernetes (Vanilla), Rancher RKE , OpenShift Container Platform, Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment (OLCNE), Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Oracle OKE, IBM Container Cloud – Kubernetes, IBM OpenShift Cloud, OpenShift Dedicated for AWS and GCP, Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO), OpenShift Origins (OKD), Linode LKE, Digital Ocean DOKS