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Storage Fusion

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Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Allow smaller amount of servers to be deployed using the Cloud Satellite automation

For Day 2 operations it is very important to be able to add single hosts to the Satellite environment and in the current interface you can only deploy a minimum of 6 hosts.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future 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 2 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
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Check Backed up OpenShift Resources through Fusion UI

Only way to verify backed up resources within a namespace is using scripts. Doing this through Fusion UI is going to be a lot better. Specially in larger OCP deployments.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration