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Storage Fusion

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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...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
15 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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...
18 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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...
24 days 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.
28 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support Fibre Channel (FC) adapters on Fusion HCI for SAN connectivity

With Fusion HCI Control Tower and ability to created Hosted Clusters, there is a demand from customers to connect their existing SAN storage using CSI drivers. Therefore, we need Fusion HCI baremetal nodes to support FC cards - 32Gbps dual-port Em...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under 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...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
2 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...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review