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Storage Fusion

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Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

GPU operator automation - enhancement

There are currently plans to automate the implementation of the GPU operator installation on detection of a specified GPU node. the operator automation process needs to completely deploy all the configuration of the Nvidia Operator including being...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion HCI VM HCP clusters with GDP remote mount

The reason for this feature is that many customers utilize Scale/ESS for their data storage and want to have the ability to directly access this data through remote mounts from containers running on VM HCP (Hosted Control Plane) clusters within Fu...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

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

Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 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.
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

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

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...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 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...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

RegionalDR support for External Ceph

For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review