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Storage Fusion

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    Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

    Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

    Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

    DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    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.
    9 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    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.
    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 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under 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 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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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