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Storage Fusion

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Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

optional Heartbeat to ecurep / callhome cloud

Similar to other Products (Scale / DS800 / Storvize) We could create a Heartbeat and send periodical GDPR complient data to Ecurep. The Data could contain current versions, some usage stats, open events etc. This would give us more feedback about ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Store backup CRs with Application

CRs should be stored with the application namespace so they are versioned with application and backed up as part of the namespace backup. Storing the backup CRs with the Backup namespace means restore is limited to clusters that are manage by the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Online Backup/Restore capability for CP4BA(21.0.3) provided by IBM Storage Fusion

Team, We have a Canadian customer(Canada Life) who requires online backup/restore solution for their CP4BA v 21.0.3 running in ARO via IBM Storage Fusion.Below are the applications which client will be deploying via CP4BA v21.0.3.· CPE· CSS· ICN· ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Metro DR configuration in Fusion SDS with internal container native storage (ODF/FDF)

Two of our largest banking customer in France are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment based on their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several data centers. This means primarily the setup of a two site Metro DR confi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration