OpenStack disaster recovery: failover and failback demo | Trilio Site Recovery

Nov 4, 2026

OpenStack disaster recovery with Trilio Site Recovery for OpenStack: a live three-tier application fails over to a recovery site and fails back, with every order intact.

You will see:

  • Site Recovery Administration in Horizon, with the primary and secondary Pure Storage FlashArrays and their replication links
  • An ActiveDR protection group with continuous replication and a VM boot order (database, app, web)
  • A one-to-one floating IP mapping between the two sites
  • A planned failover to the recovery site, and a failback to the primary site with no lost orders

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

0:15 Site Recovery Administration and storage arrays

0:35 Primary and recovery sites

0:49 The three-tier Order Desk application

1:07 Create the ActiveDR protection group and boot order

1:29 Replication health and floating IP mapping

1:50 Start a planned failover

2:05 Failover: the primary site goes down

2:17 VMs boot on the recovery site

2:29 Order Desk live on the recovery site

2:45 Fail back to the primary site

2:57 Recovery site shut down

3:10 Primary site back, every order intact

Learn more: https://trilio.io

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