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Storage Fusion

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Allow change Fusion HCI hostnames and rack units (rack-less option)

Currently, Fusion HCI uses hostnames that appear to be fixed and cannot be modified. It would be beneficial to allow customers to change these hostnames to align with their own naming conventions.Additionally, the default hostnames include the rac...
1 day ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support for SUSE K8s

would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

3rd Party storage, support and validation

We should validate and claim support for 3rd party remote storage such as that of DELL, Pure, NetApp. This was we can set our foot into the door of customers who have already and established relationship with their storage vendors. Technically wit...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion B&R RBAC and self service backup and recoveries

Customer is keen to use the self-service backup/restore to allow the app admins (admin users of particular namespaces) define and run their backup/restore jobs themselves. Currently the self-service backup/restore job definitions and job runs are ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Fusion Backup&Recovery multi-hub architecture

Currently the backup jobs in Fusion B&R require the hub to be operational in order to run backups, with multi-hub approach (possilby in active/standby fashion) the backups would have higher reliability if there is a problem with hub.
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review