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Storage Fusion

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Implementation of allowedTopologies

If you have a Openshift pod which wants to mount a GPFS filesystem, you need to manually, on each namespace specify a specific node selector policy to run your pod on a worker node with a deamon which has remote mount or it is a part of a internal...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Converting Fusion HCI from a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster

Some customers prefer to install Fusion HCI using online image registry for a faster implementation and disconnect Fusion HCI to use a local image registry once HCI is setup.
7 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 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...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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