Backup integrations

There are backup applications that support Trident and can take a backup of both VMs and container volumes.

Take a look at the backup section of Awesome SolidFire.

Some - such as Velero - have been reported to work, but haven’t been tested.

Kasten by Veeam has been touch-tested and found to work - see the link for additional comments.

SolidFire replication

As mentioned in the introduction, SolidFire supports synchronous and asynchronos replication to one or more SolidFire clusters.

It also supports SnapMirror Asynchronous which can be useful in the case of LAN-based replication to NetApp FAS or ONTAP Select. It is also possible to use SnapMirror to replicate PVs to cloud-based CVO but bandwidth and security have to be taken into account when planning such deployments.

YouTube has several video demos that show how to set up SolidFire replication with PowerShell and how to failover and failback Trident to a replica SolidFire cluster. With the ability of Trident to import iSCSI devices, however, a search-and-replace process (of PV IQNs, from PROD to DR IQNs) used in those demos may no longer be necessary. A comparison to evaluate which may be more suitable when is required.

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