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Storage Fusion

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3rd Party storage, support and validation

We should validate and claim support for 3rd party remote storage such as that of DELL, Pure, NetApp. This was we can set our foot into the door of customers who have already and established relationship with their storage vendors. Technically wit...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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

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

Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Easier or better method to mirror all required images for Fusion

Currently, there are a lot of steps required to mirror the images for Fusion installation. For example to have Fusion + Backup & Restore, we will have to mirror fusion images, then backup & restore images, then RedHat images, then the hotf...
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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review