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Storage Fusion

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    Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

    Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 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 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

    Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

    I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    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.
    12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Provide backup policy selection criteria for OCPVirt VM workloads that is more granular than OCP project level.

    Goal: minimize potential for "backup storms" overwhelming CPU and network When a cluster admin installs and configures OpenShift virtualization they need to make design decisions up front about how to support grouping of VMs into specific Project/...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

    Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

    We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

    We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

    This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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