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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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
21 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

DR feature in Fusion Access for SAN

Disaster Recovery (DR) feature in Fusion Access for SAN.
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Support NVIDIA Blackwell for Fusion HCI GPU node

We're now planning to build a platform business with major SIer vendors in Japan. We're planning to propose Fusion as their platform equipped with GPUs, but they requested us the latest model Blackwell is needed to expand their business into infor...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enable Service Node to reinstall OpenShift on Fusion HCI

In order to reinstall OpenShift on a Fusion HCI, an IBM SSR need to come onsite to redeploy the installation images on the nodes and reset the swtiches.This factory reset is called MGEN. The idea:Fusion HCIs that contain a service node could use t...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review