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Storage Fusion

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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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 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.
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Storage Fusion SDS edition backup administrator account segregation

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They have very strict administrative accounts policies and strong RBAC management in place. In the recent past, they rejected any software or hardware product that is not compliant wit...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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

Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Automate backup of cluster etcd

Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Parallelised fusion IO updates on big clusters

When doing upgrades on big clusters, IO stack update is taking a huge time, going out of maintenance window as machineconfig is changed one by one when doing the drain of scale nodes. UPdate process needs to be improved to reduce maintenance window
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4

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