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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Fusion
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 18, 2025

Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required.

Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion backup service instead of tuning multiple parameters to achieve the same. This can help to keep the overall resources (vCPU and memory) to a limit. Allowing better licensing and sizing estimates.

Customers who prefer faster backup may allocate more resources to Fusion backup service. For customers who want to limit the amount of resources for backup and willing to accept a slower backup, can choose to allocate less resources for Fusion backup service.

Thank you.

Idea priority Urgent