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Interactive demo7 minsRed Hat OpenShift

Published on September 9, 2026 by Drew Minnear

This interactive demo helps users ensure business continuity and data integrity for critical applications running on OpenShift. It walks through the full process of protecting applications and virtual machines across multiple clusters.

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What you'll learn in this interactive demo

The tour highlights:

  • Viewing connected sno4 (primary) and sno5 (secondary) clusters in the Red Hat OpenShift console.
  • Enrolling boutique and gitops-vms namespaces for disaster recovery protection under Data Services.
  • Configuring label expressions (drprotection) for Kubernetes objects and PVCs to define protected resources.
  • Selecting the 2m-novm disaster recovery policy for high-availability replication.
  • Verifying application and VM status on the primary cluster, including adding items to an onlineboutique cart and creating a text file in a Windows VM.
  • Initiating and confirming a successful failover of protected applications and VMs from sno4 to sno5.
  • Validating data integrity and application state on the secondary cluster post-failover.

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Drew Minnear

Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on Red Hat's Validated Patterns team, Drew architects and builds automation for OpenShift to create reliable, repeatable solutions for enterprise customers. He joined the team in February 2025, bringing a unique perspective shaped by his experience in front-end and back...