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Storage Fusion

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    Automate backup of cluster etcd

    Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

    Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support for air-gapped Fusion HCI 'hosted' clusters

    Several clients with airgapped environments want to test-drive the hosted cluster feature, which is currently not officially supported on airgapped Fusion HCI. This is for hosted Red Hat OCP 4.17 and 4.18, which both support airgap.With minimal ch...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 2

    Parallelised fusion IO updates on big clusters

    When doing upgrades on big clusters, IO stack update is taking a huge time, going out of maintenance window as machineconfig is changed one by one when doing the drain of scale nodes. UPdate process needs to be improved to reduce maintenance window
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4

    Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

    In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
    6 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

    Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Fusion Backup and Recovery - Restore single files from VM backup

    We would like to implement single file restore for Fusion Backup Restore. Today we are required to restore to a separate namespace and copy files as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.8.x?topic=virtualization-ba...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

    Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

    When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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