IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Storage Fusion

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    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...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under 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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Needs more information

    Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

    Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

    Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

    The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

    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...
    7 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.
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

    Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

    Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    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 Under review

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