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Storage Fusion

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List all available recipes in UI

Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add all cloudpak's as Operator installs

in the Fusion GUI, we have operator install of backup, datacatalog and Global Data Platform.Why not use this place to add all Cloudpak's as well, for easy deployment.First in line would be watsonx.data, watsonx.ai and wastonx.gov.
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support for cp4d service protection backups using fusion have capability to be replicated from one s3 location to another.

I have been informed that in order to restore a cp4d cluster to a DR site, we would need to have available the existing s3 backup storage location, as the service protection backups do not support being replicated from one s3 backup location to an...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow specific GDP fusion backup storage classwith Qos to avoid filling production filesystem

When doing fusion GDP backups to S3, fusion is doing a snapshot and then after a clone using mmxcp. This clone is then transferred to S3. When doing it on production systems, this clone is wasting space on production filesystem (i.e flash) as we n...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add additional options for securing the backup locations when using azure blob storage

Currently the product uses the storage account name and key when configuring a backup location on azxure blob stoarge. The recommended way to use azure blob storage described by microsoft is to create a service principal that is used to acess the ...
6 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 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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