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Storage Fusion

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
22 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Pause replication of VM in Fusion HCI GDP Metro DR

After VM failover to DR OCP, some applications users would like to check and verify before the VM replicate back to the Production OCP. Should there be issues, they would not want to failback. User will be able to use the VM in the Production OCP ...
30 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

MetroDR and RegionalDR combination

Be able to have a "local" MetroDR pair that also replicates asynchronously to a third cluster using RegionalDR. This is not available today, as Ramen only supports peering two clusters. Anything that involves more than two clusters is not supporte...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Another one is when will Bob on Storage Fusion be officially supported

These getting very common in Region like Europe and Middle East
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Easier hotfix awareness

At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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teste
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

Ability to select what to restore when the backup was created using a custom recipe

Only when restoring backups created with the default recipe (i.e., without explicitly specifying a custom recipe within the associated policy assignment) is it possible to choose before the restore whether to restore the missing etcd resources and...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Support for SUSE K8s

would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

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