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Storage Fusion

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...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

SPP Container Backup Support for multiple storage classes

Container backup support at the moment only supports container native storage class, we would like to add more storage classes to be supported with one solution.
about 4 years ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Provide backup policy selection criteria for OCPVirt VM workloads that is more granular than OCP project level.

Goal: minimize potential for "backup storms" overwhelming CPU and network When a cluster admin installs and configures OpenShift virtualization they need to make design decisions up front about how to support grouping of VMs into specific Project/...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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