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Storage Fusion

Proxmox Integration with IBM Fusion

Target Customer Profile This solution is best positioned for smaller private market organizations that typically have: 25–500 virtual machines 1–10 IT infrastructure administrators Limited virtualization expertise Budget constraints Aging VMware e...
26 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Taints support for Fusion Access

Capability in Fusion Access to present multiple-sized LUNs from external storage and the ability to determine which worker nodes in a single cluster have access to the various LUNs. Currently, Fusion Access requires that all externally presented L...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Request for Modification of Reserved VLAN 4091 provisioning, in Fusion HCI

Currently VLAN 4091 is reserved and used by default by the product for internal communications, for provisioning and that’s ok. The problem starts when you have more than one Fusion HCI rack in the same cluster, so you have to extend 4091 to all i...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Handle PVCs without StorageClass as warning instead of blocking the backup

IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should handle PVCs without an OpenShift StorageClass more gracefully during backup validation. In some environments, especially with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, there can be many PVCs that refer to external NFS ...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

GCP Cloud storage using Google Workload Identity federation support for IBM Fusion- Backup and restore as backup backend

We need enormous amount of storage to host backup data from CP4AIOPS and Openshift Virtualisation and we are running out of Onprem storage . We have GCP storage available to us but it needs authenication via Workload Identity Federation . I can se...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Lab validation required for Firmware/BMC/BIOS security controls compatibility with Fusion HCI

Hello, We are currently working on a security compliance audit for our IBM Fusion HCI environment hosting NVIDIA H200 GPU nodes. Following our support case TS022037768, IBM Development confirmed that the following firmware/BMC/BIOS security contro...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add an intelligent Recipe Generator to the IBM Storage Fusion UI

IBM Storage Fusion should provide an intelligent Recipe Generator directly in the Fusion UI. One of the greatest strengths and most valuable capabilities of IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore is its ability to process recipes, enabling applic...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add guided diagnostics for IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore issues

IBM Storage Fusion should provide a guided diagnostics function for Backup & Restore problems directly in the Fusion UI. When Backup & Restore components fail, administrators often need to manually inspect OpenShift resources such as pods,...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Improve certificate lifecycle visibility in IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

IBM Storage Fusion should provide better visibility into the certificates and TLS secrets used by the Backup & Restore service. In production environments, Backup & Restore depends on several internal certificates and Kubernetes secrets. W...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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