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Storage Fusion

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Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Include resource request and limits in Fusion deployment

All Fusion critical pods should have a resource request and limit assigned at deployment time and that could be reconfigured after deployment to match new requirements. A profile concept would be created to change/set the request and limit of thes...
about 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Multiple snapshot disk attached to same worker node from different namespaces which cause the "Failed Snapshot" in the backup because of the limitation in VMware end.

Issue where snapshot getting failed on daily backup jobs runs when we have multiple PV/PVCs from different namespace attached the same worker node because of the VMware end there is limitation to handle the multiple tasks at same time. When the fi...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

Support for IBM Storage Discover for local filesystem in IBM Spectrum Fusion / Fusion HCI deployments

IBM Storage Discover is supposed to be an integrated component of the Spectrum Fusion platform. however Spectrum Fusion HCI does not allow for Storage Discover to scan the local Fusion HCI filesystem. This defeats the purpose of using Discover to ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Super easy way to begin.

It feels to me like we’re walking away from customers who are critical to our Cloud success. Development has told me they have been forced into supporting a 4-node cluster as the bare minimum for Fusion Data Catalog (FDC). I believe this is an inc...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14) By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration