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Storage Fusion

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    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    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...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    support multi-arch payload to add alt arch worker nodes to HCI OCP cluster

    Customers who want to leverage unique capabilities of alternative architecture platforms supported by OCP such as LinuxOne and IBM POWER want to add these alt arch worker nodes to their x86 HCI OCP cluster. Pre-req step on x86 cluster: https://doc...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Easier hotfix awareness

    At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    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.
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    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...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    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
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Allow change Fusion HCI hostnames and rack units (rack-less option)

    Currently, Fusion HCI uses hostnames that appear to be fixed and cannot be modified. It would be beneficial to allow customers to change these hostnames to align with their own naming conventions.Additionally, the default hostnames include the rac...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

    Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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