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Enable Multi-Select Delete for Backup Jobs in IBM Storage Fusion

In the current version of IBM Storage Fusion, the list of executed backup jobs allows only single-entry interactions. When users need to delete multiple backup jobs, each DeleteBackupRequest must be created individually per job. This is time-consu...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Needs more information

Add dual stack networking to IBM Fusion HCI automated installation

Currently the IBM Fusion HCI automated installation only allows for single stack IPv4 networking, and nothing else. Other choices that are supported by OpenShift are IPv6 single stack network, or dual stack networking with IPv4 <AND> IPv6. T...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
11 months 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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

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

Add all cloudpak's as Operator installs

in the Fusion GUI, we have operator install of backup, datacatalog and Global Data Platform.Why not use this place to add all Cloudpak's as well, for easy deployment.First in line would be watsonx.data, watsonx.ai and wastonx.gov.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review