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Storage Fusion

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 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 ...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 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.
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Converting Fusion HCI from a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster

Some customers prefer to install Fusion HCI using online image registry for a faster implementation and disconnect Fusion HCI to use a local image registry once HCI is setup.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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