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Storage Fusion

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Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
about 3 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Non-disruptive migrate between storage classes

Need the ability to non-disruptively (or minimally disruptive) migrate data between storage classes. Needs to be fully automated with the user simply selecting the source PV and target storage class. Use Cases: Replace storage provider such as exi...
10 days ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Ability to extend/prevent expiration of a single backup or archiving functionality

Sometimes it is needed to make a permanent backup of a good known state of a system, an archive of a sort that will not be deleted by expiration. There should be a way to lock a single backup/prevent its standard expiration and deletion.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Pak Adopt Online Backup/Restore with Storage Fusion & Recipe

Online and non-disruptive backup and restore of mission-critical and enterprise applications such as Cloud Pak for Data is now available (with CP4D v4.5 and onward) using application-aware recipes and IBM Storage Fusion software. Other Cloud Paks ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2

Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration