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Storage Fusion

Pick specific resource type or singular CR to restore out of overall application

When we execute a restore we can select if we want restore all PVs or just check a specific one. It would be great to add same functionality for resources so customer can select a specific ConfigMap or specific Secret instead of recovering all. If...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Ship Fusion HCI with OCP and Fusion container images

When installing into an air-gap environment it is expected to mirror a specific OpenShift release and the Fusion images, then import them into the client network and push into the client provided private registry. This process is not tested proper...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Fusion restore target can use GIU/UID difference than source

Fusion restore service will be able to restore a project namespace using a new set of GID/UID that may be different than the GID/UID used in the source. This can be useful in the event that the original GID/UID are already in use in the target clu...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 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.
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Implementation of allowedTopologies

If you have a Openshift pod which wants to mount a GPFS filesystem, you need to manually, on each namespace specify a specific node selector policy to run your pod on a worker node with a deamon which has remote mount or it is a part of a internal...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 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 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

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