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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Fusion
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 27, 2023

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Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

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The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14)

By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the same way that currently supported IPI targets are. This would provide an opportunity for RHT to extend their core OCP doc to include an "Installing on IBM Fusion HCI" section, as well as extend core RHT support for OCP to Fusion HCI as a provider.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 13, 2024

    we might(?) be able to build on the same MGEN bring up automation used by HCI today to boot an HCI box up to the point where it can provide an IPI compliant endpoint for the OpenShift installer, using freshly deployed OCPVirt instead of a traditional hypervisor control plane. I imagine there is an ACM swim lane in this to consider as well...

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 11, 2024

    Sharing further on this - I believe that if the HCI platform included a control plane/API that could be consumed by the openshift installer in the same way other IPI providers are consumed, then we would have much greater addressable market and be in a much stronger competitive position.

    In the idea above I call out how other IBM providers are already included in the RHT doc as supported targets for IPI and UPI installation. I do this to illustrate how achieving this functionality translates into core RHT documentation, similar to current doc today that does same for directly competing platforms - a rock solid endorsement that it's an architecture supported by RHT too, backed by the necessary joint engineering/QA.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 11, 2024

    Updated original idea to correct and clarify


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