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Storage Fusion

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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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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

Allow smaller amount of servers to be deployed using the Cloud Satellite automation

For Day 2 operations it is very important to be able to add single hosts to the Satellite environment and in the current interface you can only deploy a minimum of 6 hosts.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

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
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enabling etcd Key Value Store Backups in Fusion Backup

Realized this is a duplicate request with: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPFUS-I-70 OCP operational best practices recommend protecting etcd if you are responsible for the availability of the Kubernetes cluster and the built-in etcd ...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Support for HTTP proxy on fusion baclkup to S3

More and more customers wants to do fusion backups to Public S3 to be able to recover environments offprem, but 99 of them are using HTTP proxy to validate access to outside world. Support needed for HTTP proxy with validations usage when configur...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Include resource request and limits in Fusion deployment

All Fusion critical pods should have a resource request and limit assigned at deployment time and that could be reconfigured after deployment to match new requirements. A profile concept would be created to change/set the request and limit of thes...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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