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IBM Cloud Pak Adopt Online Backup/Restore with Storage Fusion & Recipe

Online and non-disruptive backup and restore of mission-critical and enterprise applications such as Cloud Pak for Data is now available (with CP4D v4.5 and onward) using application-aware recipes and IBM Storage Fusion software. Other Cloud Paks ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2

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

Support for Gen 2 Storage Nodes in Fusion HCI Gen1 Rack with FDF

Client who invested in Gen 1 HCI Racks with C01/C05 Nodes can add more capacity for bringing new persistent workload on OCP/Fusion Cluster. This can be achieved via testing C14 Storage Nodes in Gen1 Rack with C01/C05 nodes.
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1

TSM client & server support for CENTOS

Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significant added value when customers deploy VMware ESX HA clusters in active/active mode using IBM FlashSystem with active/active Hyperswap storage. In this context, we would like to know if Red Hat OVE with a stretched cluster could achieve something similar using IBM FlashSystem in active/active Hyperswap mode.

With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significan...
4 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration