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Storage Fusion

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    Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

    Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

    Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 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 ...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Add dual stack networking to IBM Fusion HCI automated installation

    Currently the IBM Fusion HCI automated installation only allows for single stack IPv4 networking, and nothing else. Other choices that are supported by OpenShift are IPv6 single stack network, or dual stack networking with IPv4 <AND> IPv6. T...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

    Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

    Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

    DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 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...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    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...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 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.
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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