By Chris Mellor
Publication Date: 2026-05-13 13:35:00
NetApp claims backup and recovery operations complete faster on Red Hat’s OpenShift container and virtual machine platform when carried out by NetApp arrays.
OpenShift virtualized environments are growing in size and number. According to Red Hat’s “The state of virtualization” report, backup methods that rely on scanning full virtual machine (VM) disks can lead to longer backup windows, unpredictable recovery timelines, and increased operational risk. Block-level change tracking can significantly reduce the backup data stream’s size compared to full VM disk copying.
Dallas Olson, NetApp’s chief commercial officer, said: “NetApp’s latest innovations with Red Hat enable predictable backup and recovery behavior even as the VM environment grows. Customers can now migrate, operate, and protect large‑scale VM and container environments on Red Hat OpenShift with greater speed, predictability, and operational confidence.”
NetApp and Red Hat have collaborated to introduce a product with a lengthy name: NetApp Backup and Recovery for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization on NetApp ONTAP storage. This accelerates backups and restores with incremental-forever backups providing changed block tracking (CBT), storage…
