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Storage Fusion

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    Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

    Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 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...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    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 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...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 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 2 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.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 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 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 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

    DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    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.
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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