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Storage Fusion

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[Fusion Backup] Add resource check list at restore time

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...
about 1 year 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

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

run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Scale Storage template for Satellite

Add supported storage template for Spectrum Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (former ESS) in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale-csi . This would simplify management & maintenance for custo...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0

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...
6 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.
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support Encryption key rotation in Fusion HCI GDP

The Fusion HCI GDP offers data encryption at rest through the integration with Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM). In accordance with customer's security policy, regular encryption key rotation is required.We suggest adding key rotation into Fu...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Satellite CoreOS images deployment

Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Not under consideration